The Quest To Understand The Origins Of Humans

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which arise every day in front of them, they try to
hide under the mask called god, but by doing that they do not solve them,
they only ignore and try to escape their everyday problems, which makes
everything worse. The desperate attempt to explain their own existence took
people to the creation of many various myths, which also incorporated in
them many different aspect of the culture and everyday life of their
creators. This connection between people and the myths is actually
illustrated on the three creation stories Genesis, Buddha and Zeus
mythology.
One of the best examples to illustrate this is to take a look at the
creation myths of the ancient Greece about the Olympic gods. This is my
favorite creation story maybe because I like ancient Egypt and Greece.
Olympic gods are very similar to the people; moreover they are people only
with more power. Actually they are the best example to illustrate the
nature of the people. They kill each other, they are jealous of each ...

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people
had slaves and could do anything with people who were in the lower social
class than they were themselves. Besides of all of that Zeus metrology
shows very interesting concepts of the separation of powers between all the
gods. Each god is responsible for his own power physical or mental such as
love, war, water, earth, and sky. The strength of the Olympic myths lies in
the nature, people believed in nature, feared it because they could not
control it or explain it or maybe because they depended so much on it.
In the "Old school" religion the Genesis, we see completely different
way of thinking. We see so-called THE truth. We see the absolute power,
which had created us. We ...

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