Hi everyone,
¡Hola de la playa en Mexico!
Even on holiday I couldn’t content myself so have created a new post while lying on the beach 
As many of us work with a range of deities from different pantheons, I thought it might be a good idea to have a collection of creation stories that show how each pantheon believes the world (and many of their deities) came into existence.
Greek
In the beginning there was nothing but darkness and chaos. Within this was Nyx, a winged night goddess covered with a veil of darkness. Together, chaos and Nyx gave rise to Erebus, the personification of the darkness, the unknown and the shadowy aspects of existence. Erebus took Nyx as his wife and together they had two children; Aether, the upper sky and Hemera, the bringer of daylight.
Together, Aether and Hemera and had four children; Gaia Mother Earth, Pontus the sea, Eros personified love and Taturus was Hell.
Without assistance, Gaia gave birth to Uranus, who represented the sky. He became her mate and completely covered her, fertilising her in the process. This gave rise to the 12 Titans, including Cronos (Time).
Cronos castrated his father and threw his genitals into the sea, creating a foam from which Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty, emerged. Cronos became the ruler of the gods with his sister-wife, Rhea, as his consort. Cronos feared that his children would overthrow him, like he had done with his own father. Each time Rhea gave birth, Cronos ate the child. Rhea
hid her child, Zeus, and presented Cronos with a stone wrapped in a baby’s blanket, which he ate.
When Zeus was grown, he fed his father a poisoned drink, which caused Cronus to vomit, releasing the children he had eaten. Zeus challenged Cronos to a war for the kingship of the gods. Zeus and his siblings were victorious, and the Titans were sent to the Abyss.
One son of the Titans, Prometheus, did not fight against Zeus and was spared imprisonment; he was given the task of creating man out of mud, and Zeus’ daughter Athena breathed life into the clay figure.
Prometheus tricked Zeus by stealing fire and giving it to man. As a punishment, he was chained to a rock and tormented daily by an eagle. Zeus also created Pandora, the first woman. She was beautiful but deceptive. Zeus gave Pandora a box and commanded her never to open it. However, her curiosity overcame her, and she opened the box to release all kinds of evil, plagues, sorrows, and misfortunes on humanity as punishment for the fire they had received.
Egyptian
In the beginning, there was nothing but a dark and watery chaos called Nun. From this chaos rose a pyramid shaped mound, the Ben-Ben. Upon thus stood a self-created deity, Atum (the first form of Ra). He sneezed and produced two new deities, Shu, who represented air and Tefnut, who represented moisture.
They both united and created Geb, the Earth God and Nut, the sky Goddess. Ra set his eye into the sky, bringing heat, light and also allowing him to look down upon his creation. This was the Sun. However, the eye became obscured and the light diminished, thus creating night. To combat this, Ra placed a second, lesser eye in the sky to provide some light at night. This was the Moon. The light of the moon created plants, trees and all vegetation. Ra cried with happiness at his creation. As the landed, they created all living things including humans.
Geb and Nut united to create Osiris, Isis, Set and Nephtys. Osiris was the living incarnation of his great grandfather and the first legendary pharaoh of Egypt.
Norse
In the beginning there was nothing but a huge void. This was known as the Ginmungagap. To the north was the firey and molten domain of Muspelheim. To the south was the ice, frost, wind and rain of Niflhiem. The heat and cold met and created flowing liquid which formed into a giant called Ymir, as well as others. The warmth of the Muspelhiem began to melt the ice of the Niflhiem and from this came a magical cow called Audhumia, who nourished Ymir with her milk.
The cosmic cow licked on the ice of the land and melted it, revealing Buri, the first of the Gods. He then fathered Borr, who married the giantess Bestla. Together, they had three sons; Vé, Vili and Odin. The three Gods worked together to slay the giant Ymir and use his body to create the world.
His flesh became the Earth, his blood became the Seas, this bones became the mountains and his hair became the forests. His skull became the sky, supported by 4 dwarfs that represented the cardinal compass points.
The brothers created the Sun, Moon and Sata from the sparks emerging from Muspelhiem. The slain giants eyebrows became Midgard, the realm where humans dwell. The Gods breathed life into two trees, Ask and Embla, from which the first humans emerged.
Roman
The Romans did not have a single story that focused on the creation of the Earth. They borrowed heavily from the Greeks, replacing the deities with their own. Gaia became Terra, Uranus became Caelus, Cronos became Saturn, Aphrodite was Venus and Zeus became Jupiter.
However, an important story in the Roman pantheon focused on the creation of Rome itself:
The founding of Rome goes way back to the Greek Trojan Wars. Aeneas, the son of Aphrodite (Venus) escaped the fall of Troy and fled to what would be Italy. Here he married the daughter of King Latinus. Together, they had a son called Ascanius, who founded the city of Alba Longa. Over time, the city was ruled by several Kings, including Numiter. He was overthrown by his brother Amulius.
Amulius forced his brother’s daughter, Rhea Silvia, to become a Vestal Virgin, a temple priestess who vowed a life of celibacy. This was to prevent her from giving birth to any heirs who may have challenged his power. However Mars, the God of War, fell in love with Rhea Silvia and she broke her vows of celibacy, giving birth to the twins Romulus and Remus. Amulius feared that they would grow up to challenge him and ordered the twins to be killed. Their mother placed them in a basket and placed it on the Tiber river. They were found by a she wolf, who suckled them like her own cubs. A woodpecker also helped by bringing them food. The twins were then discovered by a shepherd and his wife, who raised the boys as their own.
As the boys grew, they became involved in a brawl and their past was revealed to them. They set out to confront Amulius and killed him in battle, restoring their grandfather Numiter to the throne of Alba Longa.
The twins decided to establish their own city but had a disagreement on the location. They agree to decide using a sign from thr Gods. Romulus saw 12 vultures while Remus saw only 6. Romulus’ location of Palatine Hill was chosen as the location of thr new city. Remus tried to mock the new city by jumping over the outerwalls to show their lack of protection. For this, Romulus had his brother killed. With Remus gone, Romulus completed the city, naming it after himself, and became the first Emperor of Rome.
I hope you find it entertaining, if not useful.
Blessed be
Alan
I wish we had a creation myth from Irish mythology but, sadly, nothing was ever written down and there are no existing records. There are some modern re-tellings but they’re not based in any sort of mythology 
so, I will live vicariously through these!
That there is still hope left.
