One of them goes like this: The gods entrusted Prometheus and his brother Ibemis with the task of creating mankind. Prometheus, whose name means 'first to think' and whose wisdom surpassed even that of the gods, and Ibemis, whose name means 'hindsight to know', were impulsive and impetuous, and often regretted what they had done.
Before the creation of man, Ibimis gave the animals the advantages of strength, speed, courage, and feathers, fur, wings, and hard shells, so that when it came to man there was none of them. Humans had no covering for their bodies, nor did they have any strengths that could match those of the animals.
And when he had come to regret it, he asked Prometheus for help. So Prometheus took over the work of creation, and he thought of a good way to make mankind superior to the animals. He made man's appearance as noble as that of the gods, and went to heaven and borrowed a little fire from the sun, and lighted a torch and brought it to earth, and it became man's best defense, which could be more useful than fur, strength, speed, or courage.
"With the fire, mankind
could acquire all kinds of arts and crafts"
Legends on the origin of mankind
Legend No. 1: Nuwa was a Fuxi Clan member with the head of a man and the body of a snake, who rolled the earth to make a human being, and practiced the five-color stone to mend the sky.
Legend 2: Nüwa was the female chief of the united tribes of the matriarchal society after the Fuxi clan. She was later successful in managing floods and advocating reproduction, so she was mythologized as the mother of mankind and the god of mending the sky.
Legend 3: Pangu opened up the sky and the earth. Heaven and earth is chaos, Pangu in which, later the sky gradually high a zhang, the ground gradually thick a zhang, Pangu also grew taller a zhang. In the long run, Pangu is getting taller and taller, until Pangu will die, his left eye into the sun, the right eye into the moon, blood into rivers, sinews and flesh into fields and soil, hair into stars, hair into grasses and trees, lice on the body, worms and insects are turned into human beings.
Respondent: 13408366 - Apprentice Wizard Level 2 12-10 16:25
Myths about the origin of mankind, the various ethnic groups are quite rich, some of them are quite similar, of course, different from a lot of these myths, in these myths, it's very interesting to find out that there are and evolutionary theory coincides with. In these myths, interestingly enough, we can find something that coincides with the theory of evolution.
The origin of mankind can be categorized into five types of myths: 'called forth', 'originally existed', 'plant-formed', 'animal-formed', and 'made of clay'.
The Egyptian myth says that mankind was called forth by the gods. Since ancient times, Egypt has been a mysterious place, the most self-contained of all the ancient countries, with its own way of life, which was difficult to be influenced by outside civilization, and therefore her version of the origin of mankind was different from that of other populations.
The Egyptians believe that far before the emergence of Egypt in the world, the Almighty God "Nu (NU)" has existed, he created all of heaven and earth, he called "Subi", there is the wind; called "Tefuna", there is the rain; called "Habibi", the Nile River flowed through Egypt, he called time and time again, one by one, one thing by one thing appeared, and finally, he said that "men and women," in the blink of an eye, Egypt is full of many people. In the twinkling of an eye, Egypt was filled with many people.
When the work of creation was complete, Nu transformed himself into a man and became the first Pharaoh, ruling over the people of the land and creating peace and prosperity.
Myths of the original existence of mankind are found among the Indians of North America and the Maori of New Zealand. The Indian mythology says that God created the heavens and the earth, and then brought mankind up from the ground to live on the earth. The Maori myth says, "Ranchi" and "Baba" are the source of everything. At that time, when the sky and the earth were not separated, it was pitch black, his son wanted to get the light, so he pushed the sky and the earth apart, and the light appeared.
The Germanic myth that humans are born of plants says that Odin, the god of the sky, was walking along the beach with other gods one day when he saw two trees growing on the sandbar, one of which had a majestic posture and the other had a more elegant posture, and ordered the two trees to be chopped down to create a man and a woman, with Odin giving life first and the other gods giving sanity, language, blood, and skin color. became the ancestors of Germania.
The myth that humans were changed from animals is quite common. In Australian mythology it is said that men were changed from lizards; in American mythology it is said that men were changed from mountain dogs, beavers, apes and monkeys; and in Greek mythology it is said that a certain group of people were changed from swans and a certain group of people were changed from cows.
We can find very close to the theory of evolution in this kind of myth of 'animals changing into human beings', especially in the myth of America, which says that human beings are changed from apes and monkeys, which is completely consistent with the theory of evolution, and this kind of coincidence is very intriguing.
China's myths about the origin of mankind are several, the earlier statement is the "Huainanzi spirit of the chapter": "There are two gods (Yin, Yang two gods) mixed birth, through the day camp ...... type of gas for the worm (turbid gas into insects, fish, birds and beasts), the essence of the human (pure gas into people). This statement has not received much attention.
A later version refers to the parasites in Pangu's body becoming human beings when he was dying and being transformed into all things. In the first volume of the Dedicated History, it is quoted as saying, "The worms in Pangu's body were touched by the wind, and they were transformed into human beings. "This kind of statement has not been spread.
Another theory is that human beings were created by the Yellow Emperor, and then endowed with limbs and senses by the other gods Shang Pian and Sang Lin, as shown in Huainan Zi's "The Story of the Forest": "The Yellow Emperor gave birth to the yin and yang, Shang Pian gave birth to the ears and eyes, and Sang Lin gave birth to the arms and hands ......". This statement is very interesting, and the Germanic description is very similar, but unfortunately, on the parallel and Sang Lin is what kind of god, in other ancient books did not describe, in vain, left a mystery.
Among all the myths, the 'earth made man' is the most popular and widely spread. For example, the New Zealand myth says that man was made from red earth and his own blood by TIKI, the god of the sky; the Melanesian myth also says the same thing; the Greek myth says that the gods took out the earth and fire from the inner part of the earth, and sent the two gods Prometheus and Epimetheus, to create the animals and mankind respectively, and to give mankind all kinds of personalities and intelligence.
The Maidu Indians of western North America believe that after creating trees, birds, and animals, the "Creator of the Earth" said, "I'm going to make a man. So they took some dark red clay and mixed it with water and made a man and a woman.
Of all the myths, the most intriguing stories about the creation of man from clay are those of Nuwa in China and God in Jewish mythology (the Bible).
The story goes that after Pangu opened up the heavens and the earth, after an unknown number of years, Nuwa suddenly appeared in the middle of heaven and earth. One day, she looked into the water and saw herself, and thought how nice it would be if there were a few people like herself in heaven and earth who could talk to each other. So she unconsciously grabbed some clay and mixed it with water, and made a clay doll in her own shape, and put it on the ground, and when it was blown by the wind, it became a living thing, and she named it "Man".
When Nuwawa continued to create people one by one, but the progress was slow, she finally felt overwhelmed and wondered how she could create people fast enough to fill up the vast earth, she leaned her back against a cliff, picked a cane in her hand, and lazily stirred it in the muddy slurry with the water. The number of people on the ground kept increasing.
The biblical story of God's creation of man is recorded in the Old Testament in the book of Genesis. It is said that God created all things in the earth in five days, and on the sixth day he said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. ......" So he made man out of the dust of the ground, and when he had breathed into his nostrils a spirit of anger, he became a living human being, and he called his name Adam.
Now one of Adam's ribs was taken from him, and a woman was formed, of whom Adam said, 'This is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; that he may be called Woman.
In the myths of Nuwa and God's creation of man, one can find **** similarities in that they both created man in their image, which shows that Nuwa and God look similar to man. The difference is that the Bible describes the woman as being made from the rib of a man, not from clay.
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Respondent: 言之午 - Chief Operating Officer Grade 12 12-11 08:51
Pangu opened up the world
Original
The sky and the earth are as chaotic as a chicken, and Pangu was born in them. Ten thousand eight hundred years old, opened up the sky and earth, Yang clear for the sky, Yin turbid for the earth, Pangu in it, nine changes a day. God in heaven, holy in earth. The sky is one zhang high, the earth is one zhang thick, and Pangu is one zhang long. So 18,000 years, the sky is very high, the earth is very thick, Pangu is very long. Therefore, the sky goes to the earth for 90,000 miles.
--from Taiping Yuban, Volume 2, citing the Sanwu Calendar Chronicle
The first born Pangu, dying incarnation: gas into phoenix clouds, sound for thunder, left eye for the sun, right eye for the moon, limbs and five bodies for the four poles and five mountains, blood for the rivers, tendons for the geography, muscles for the fields and earth, hair and mustache for the stars, fur for the grass, teeth and bones for the gold and jade, essence for the beads and stones, and the marrow for the beads and stones. gold and jade, essence as pearls and stones, and sweat as rain.
--from "Deduction History" Volume 1 cited "five luck calendar age"
The first Confucian said that the Pangu weeping for the river, the gas for the wind, the sound for the thunder, the pupil of the eye for the electricity. The Ancient Scholar said that Pangu's joy is sunny and his anger is yin. --From the Book of Descriptions
Notes
①, Pangu opened up the world, and there are countless legends about this from ancient times to the present day. However, since Pangu opened the world, the three kings and five emperors to the present day. This statement is recognized by modern people. I will start from this recognized **** the same point, so only selected these three paragraphs, explaining its essence.
②, the first, the ancient Nai and the word "Tao" common. The first one, the road also. This sentence is: the Tao gave birth to the Pangu. Pangu is a personified thing. On the contrary, it is the product of the personalization of things.
3, moustache, beard.
Translation
When heaven and earth were as chaotic as an egg, Pangu was born from them. When Pangu lived to be eighteen thousand years old, the first thing he did was to open up the heavens and open up the earth, and he caused the clear and light to rise up as the heavens and the heavy and turbid to sink down as the earth, while Pangu was in the midst of the heavens and the earth, and there were nine changes in one day. The God of Pangu is as high as the sky, and shall also be as broad and thick as the earth. The sky is one zhang high, the earth is one zhang thick, and Pangu is one zhang long. Therefore, such a maintenance of 18,000 years, so the number of the sky is extremely high, the number of the earth is extremely thick, Pangu and its growth, which is the reason why the distance between the sky and the earth 90,000 miles.
Dao Sheng produced Pangu, Pangu did after the opening of the things, the achievement of the immortal incarnation: its gas into the wind and clouds, the sound into the thunder, the left eye into the sun, the right eye into the moon, its limbs into the east, west, south, north and south of the four sides of the five viscera into the east of Mount Taishan, west of Mount Huashan, Mount Hengshan, Mount Everest, Mount Songshan, Mount Hengshan, the five Mount Yue also, the blood into the rivers, and the blood into the rivers, and the blood into the mountains. The sinews and veins were transformed into the veins of geography and mountains, the muscles were transformed into fields and soil, the hair and beard were transformed into stars, the fur was transformed into grasses and trees, the teeth and bones were transformed into deposits of gold and jade, the essence was transformed into pearls and gems, and the sweat was transformed into rain.
Pangu's eternal incarnation: sobs were transformed into rivers, breath into wind, voice into thunder, and pupils of eyes into electricity. Pangu's joy is transformed into a sunny sky, and his anger is transformed into a cloudy sky.
Respondent: niu00139 - Assistant Grade 2 12-13 17:53
"Asia may have served as a huge stage for human evolution, a huge diffusion center for the oldest human industries. It is almost unthinkable to leave Asia to figure out complex issues such as human origins."
"China discovered the Yuanmou people in 1965, but in the context of the times, a considerable period of time, the country's doors are closed, international experts have flocked to Africa, resulting in a large number of archaeological discoveries in Africa. Yuanmou people's research, can no longer be alone!"
In fact, in recent years, Asia, especially China, researchers are setting off a "catching up with Africa" action, a number of their discoveries in the age of Africa, those who are considered to be the world's earliest human fossils and paleolithic. "We have reason to believe that with the discovery of more new materials and more in-depth studies in Asia, a picture of human origins and evolution that matches the original will unfold."
All, of course, awaits the unearthing of the all-important human fossils.
Respondent: EVEmy - Magic Apprentice Level 1 12-16 14:07
Myths of human origins
Myths of human origins
The origins of mankind can be said to be the most vexing problem in academics, no matter whether it is anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, biologists, chemists, and even philosophers, religious, all have done various studies on the origins of mankind.
Myths and legends about the origin of mankind are abundant among all nations, and some of them are quite similar to each other, but of course there are many different ones, and it is interesting to note that some of these myths coincide with the theory of evolution.
The origin of human beings can be categorized into five types of myths: 'called forth', 'originally existed', 'plant-formed', 'animal-formed', and 'made of clay'.
The Egyptian myth says that mankind was called forth by the gods. Since ancient times, Egypt has been a mysterious place, the most self-contained of all the ancient countries, with its own way of life, which was difficult for the outside civilization to influence, and therefore her version of the origin of mankind was different from that of other populations.
The Egyptians believe that far before the emergence of Egypt in the world, the Almighty God "Nu (NU)" has existed, he created all of heaven and earth, he called "Subi", there is the wind; called "Tefuna", there is the rain; called "Habibi", the Nile River flowed through Egypt, he called time and time again, one by one, one thing by one thing appeared, and finally, he said that "men and women," in the blink of an eye, Egypt is full of many people. In the twinkling of an eye, Egypt was filled with many people.
When the work of creation was complete, Nu transformed himself into a man and became the first Pharaoh, ruling over the people of the land and creating peace and prosperity.
Myths of the original human existence are found among the Indians of North America and the Maori of New Zealand. The Indian mythology says that God created the heavens and the earth, and then brought mankind up from the ground to live on the earth. The Maori myth says, "Ranchi" and "Baba" are the source of all things. At that time, when the sky and the earth were not separated, it was dark everywhere, his son wanted to get the light, so he pushed the sky and the earth apart, and the light appeared.
The Germanic myth that humans are born of plants says that Odin, the god of the sky, was walking along the beach with other gods one day when he saw two trees growing on the sandbar, one of which had a majestic posture and the other had a more elegant posture, and ordered the two trees to be chopped down to create a man and a woman, with Odin giving life first and the other gods giving sanity, language, blood, and skin color. became the ancestors of Germania.
The myth that humans were changed from animals is quite common. In Australian mythology it is said that men were changed from lizards; in American mythology it is said that men were changed from mountain dogs, beavers, apes and monkeys; and in Greek mythology it is said that a certain group of people were changed from swans and a certain group of people were changed from cows.
We can find very close to the theory of evolution in this kind of myth of 'animals changing into human beings', especially in the myth of America, which says that human beings are changed from apes and monkeys, which is completely consistent with the theory of evolution, and this kind of coincidence is very intriguing.
China's myths about the origin of mankind are several, the earlier statement is the "Huainanzi spirit of the chapter": "There are two gods (Yin, Yang two gods) mixed birth, through the day camp ...... type of gas for the worm (turbid gas into insects, fish, birds and beasts), the essence of the human (pure gas into people). This statement has not received much attention.
A later version refers to the parasites in Pangu's body becoming human beings when he was dying and being transformed into all things. In the first volume of the Dedicated History, it is quoted as saying, "The worms in Pangu's body were touched by the wind, and they were transformed into human beings. "This kind of statement has not been spread.
Another theory is that human beings were created by the Yellow Emperor, and then endowed with limbs and senses by the other gods Shang Pian and Sang Lin, as shown in Huainan Zi's "The Story of the Forest": "The Yellow Emperor gave birth to the yin and yang, Shang Pian gave birth to the ears and eyes, and Sang Lin gave birth to the arms and hands ......". This statement is very interesting, and the Germanic description is very similar, but unfortunately, on the parallel and Sang Lin is what kind of god, in other ancient books did not describe, in vain, left a mystery.
Among all the myths, the 'earth made man' is the most popular and widely spread. For example, the New Zealand myth says that man was made from red earth and his own blood by TIKI, the god of the sky; the Melanesian myth also says the same thing; the Greek myth says that the gods took out the earth and fire from the inner part of the earth, and sent the two gods Prometheus and Epimetheus, to create the animals and mankind respectively, and to give mankind all kinds of personalities and intelligence.
The Maidu Indians of western North America believe that after creating trees, birds, and animals, the "Creator of the Earth" said, "I'm going to make a man. So they took some dark red clay and mixed it with water and made a man and a woman.
Of all the myths, the most intriguing stories of the creation of man from clay are those of Nuwa in China and of God in Jewish mythology (the Bible).
The story goes that after Pangu opened up the heavens and the earth, after an unknown number of years, Nuwa suddenly appeared in the middle of heaven and earth. One day, she looked into the water and saw herself, and thought how nice it would be if there were a few people like herself in heaven and earth who could talk to each other. So she unconsciously grabbed some clay and mixed it with water, and made a clay doll in her own shape, and put it on the ground, and when it was blown by the wind, it became a living thing, and she named it "Man".
When Nuwawa continued to create people one by one, but the progress was slow, she finally felt overwhelmed and wondered how she could create people fast enough to fill up the vast earth, she leaned her back against a cliff, picked a cane in her hand, and lazily stirred it in the muddy slurry with the water. The number of people on the ground kept increasing.
The biblical story of God's creation of man is recorded in the Old Testament in the book of Genesis. It is said that God created all things in the earth in five days, and on the sixth day he said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. ......" So he made man out of the dust of the ground, and when he had breathed into his nostrils a spirit of anger, he became a living human being, and he called his name Adam.
Now one of Adam's ribs was taken from him, and a woman was formed, of whom Adam said, 'This is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh, that he may be called Woman.
In the myths of Nuwa and God's creation of man, one can find **** similarities in that they both created man in their image, which shows that Nuwa and God look similar to man. The difference is that the Bible describes woman as being made from the rib of a man, not from clay.
Respondent: cestina - Magic Apprentice Level 1 12-20 20:03
The following theories of human origins have been put forward:
Divine Creation
Asian Origins
Sea Origins
African Multi-Origin
African Uni-Origin
Extraterrestrial Origins
Divine Creationism: It means that God created man, the most famous legend is "God created man", in medieval Europe, who dared to question the truth of this legend will be ..... Well, do not continue to elaborate, I do not know how many people here to support this doctrine ah?
Asian origin theory: because Asia is the origin of advanced apes, so some people think that human origin in Asia, with the Java apes, Beijing apes and a series of discoveries, this doctrine prevailed for a while. However, with the African ancient human archaeology in full swing, as well as China's ancient ape fossils (such as Lufeng ancient apes, great apes) is not considered to be the ancestor of mankind, "Asian origins" has declined, I do not know how many "patriots" here to support this doctrine?
Sea origin theory: for a long time, we have not found 8 million to 4 million years before the present human fossils, coupled with some of the physiological characteristics of human beings close to marine mammals, some people believe that this period of time the ancestors of human beings living in the sea. But with a series of discoveries in recent years, the so-called "fossil gap" has been filled, and who would support this theory?
African multiple origin theory: With the comprehensive development of African paleoanthropology, many fossils of ancient humans and hominids have been found in Africa, and the theory that "Africa is the origin of human beings" has been unopposed in mainstream science. The theory of African origin is divided into "polygenesis" and "monogenesis". The polygenesis theory holds that human beings spread all over the world after they evolved to the stage of Homo erectus, and then they evolved separately, and with the frequent human interactions, different ancient human beings began to mix and interbreed with each other, and then they became various kinds of modern human beings nowadays. According to the theory of "multiple origins", the Peking ape-man and other Chinese erect apes are still the ancestors of modern Chinese people. The "African theory of multiple origins" is now the dominant theory of human origins in China.
African monogenesis: In the era of "polygenesis", many people can not understand how the huge difference between the various ancient human beings around the world **** the same evolution into the modern human species, which is not very different? Now the modern people around the world, although the appearance of the difference is very large, but the physical nature of the difference is very small, it is impossible to be different from the evolution of the ancestors ah! With the development of DNA technology, people have finally solved this mystery. It has been discovered that the ancestor of all modern human beings was an East African woman codenamed "Eve" 200,000 years ago, and later, the descendants of "Eve" spread all over the world, wiping out the original ancient human beings all over the world, and became the modern human beings who rule the whole earth now. A series of discoveries in recent years (such as the Pioneer Man and Homo sapiens sapiens) have also proved the correctness of the "monogenesis theory". According to the theory of "monogenesis", the ancestors of modern Chinese were not at all like monkeys when they arrived in China 50,000 years ago, and the Peking ape-man is not our direct ancestor! Monogenesis" is currently the world's mainstream theory of human origins.
The theory of extraterrestrial origin: this ..... What can I say?
While scholars are more focused on debating the "African Origin Theory" and the "Multi-Regional Evolution Theory (African Multi-Origin Theory)". African origin theory that modern man first originated in Africa, about 130,000 years ago out of Africa, spread to Asia, Europe and other places, and replaced the local aborigines. Multi-region evolution theory that 1 million to 2 million years ago, Homo erectus expanded from Africa to other continents after the independent evolution of modern Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europeans. However, since the 1980s of last century, the results of several genetic studies, so that the multi-regional evolution theory is not persuasive. The origin of mankind in Africa has been the basic recognition of foreign anthropologists, but our anthropologists tend to "multi-region origins
Respondent: Ignore the night sky - Beginner disciple level 12-21 21:30
The mystery of the origin of mankind Europe, especially in Western Europe, was once thought to be the birthplace of mankind since Darwin created
The origin of mankind in Africa has been recognized by the world's most famous scientists, including the American Academy of Sciences.