Cosmogony (idea)

Asterisks mark those which have been noded.

Tribal Cosmogonies:

• African -
• Boshongo (Bantu tribe of Central Africa)
• Dogon (Mesopotamian)
• Efik (tribe of Nigeria)
• Ekoi (tribe of South Nigeria)
• Fans (Bantu tribe)
• Generic*
• Shillluk (also called Shilluk)
• Wahungwe (tribe of Rhodes Island)
• Yoruba: Olurun & Obatala (tribe of Southwestern Nigeria)
• Yoruba: Olurun & Oduduwa
• Zimbabwean (South West)
• Zulu (tribe of the South)
• American Indian -
• Acjachemen (tribe of Southern California; also called Juaneno)
• Algonquin (tribe of Ottawa; also called Algonkin)
• Alsea (tribe of Oregon)
• Anasazi (Pueblo tribe of the South West & Mexico)
• Anasazi: Ant People
• Apache: The One Who Lives Above (tribe of the South West; also called Jicarilla)
• Apache: The White Painted Woman
• Arapaho (tribe of Oklahoma & Wyoming; also called Arapaho, Inuna-Ino or Hinonoeino)
• Athabascan (tribe of Northern Canada; also called Déné)
• Aztec (tribe of Mexico)
• Bella Cola (tribe of Northern Canada)
• Blackfoot (tribe of Missouri & Saskatchewan)
• Blood (tribe of Canada)
• Cahuilla (tribe of Southern California)
• Chelan (tribe of Chelan & Oklahoma)
• Cherokee (tribe of the South East)
• Cheyenne (Algonquin tribe of the Sioux & Wyoming)
• Chinook (tribe of the North West)
• Chippewa (tribe of Quebec & Wisconsin; also called Anishinabe, Anishnabwe or Ojibway)
• Choctaw (tribe of Oklahoma)
• Comanche (tribe of Texas & Oklahoma)
• Crow (tribe of Montana & Wyoming)
• Dakotan (tribe of Minnesota & the plains)
• Digueno (tribe of California)
• Hidatsa (tribe of the plains)
• Hopi: Mockingbird (tribe of the South West)
• Hopi: Tawa & Spider-Woman
• Hopi-Tewa (tribe of Arizona)
• Huron ((tribe of the North East)
• Iroquois: Land Above The Sky (tribe of New York & group of five Seneca nations; also called Haudenosaunee)
• Iroquois: Spirit of the Sky World
• Kiowa (tribe of the plains)
• Lakotan (subdivision of the Dakota tribe)
• Maidu (tribe of California)
• Mayan (tribe of Guatemala; also called Yucatan)
• Mik'Maq Creation Myths (tribe of Newfoundland; also called Mic'Maq, Micmac or Mikmak):
• Gisoolg
• Glooscap
• Neganogonimgosseesgo
• Netaoansom
• Nisgam
• Nogami
• Ootsitgamoo
• Mohave (tribe of the South West)
• Navajo: Five Worlds (descendants of the Déné tribe of the South West)
• Navajo: Insect People*
• Navajo: Lake of Changing Waters
• Nuu-chal-nuth (tribe of Southwestern Canada; also called Nootka)
• Oglala (tribe of the Sioux)
• Omaha (tribe of Nebraska)
• Oneida (subdivision of the Iroquois)
• Paiute (tribe of the Great Basin)
• Pawnee (tribe of Oklahoma)
• Penobscot (tribe of Maine)
• Pomo (tribe of Central California)
• Potawatomi (tribe of the North East)
• Salish (tribe of the North West)
• Shawnee (tribe of Ohio & Oklahoma)
• Tewa (see also Hopi-Tewa above)
• Tlingit (tribe of the North West)
• Tuskegee (tribe of Alabama)
• Uitoto (tribe of Colombia)
• Winnebago (tribe of Wisconsin)
• Yokut (tribe of California; also called Yauelmani or Yawelmani)
• Yuchi (tribe of the South East)
• Zuñi* (tribe of Arizona; subdivision of the Anasazi)
• Other -
  • Chukchee (Eskimo tribe of Russia; also called Chukchi)
  • Incan (tribe of Bolivia, Ecuador & Peru)
  • Inuit (Eskimo tribe of the Andes/Alaska)
  • Maori (tribe of New Zealand)
  • Tiahuanaco (tribe of Bolivia)
  • Yanomamo (tribe of the Amazon)
  • Yup'ik (tribe of Alaska)

National/Cultural:

• Assyrian
• Australian Creation Myth
• Babylonian: Bilingual
• Babylonian: Enuma Elish* (Mesopotamian)
• Celtic

• Generic*
• Nü Wa
• Pan Gu
• Pan Gu & egg
• Pan Gu & princess

• Atum
• Khepri
• Lower Kingdom
• Nile
• Shabaka Stone
• Upper Kingdom*

• Five Ages of Man (though not strictly a cosmogony)
• Hesiod/Orpheas
• Homeric
• Olympian
• Orphic
• Pelasgian
• Pherecydes

• Keawe
• Pele

• Dhammai
• Laws of Manu (Manusmriti)

• Ainu (tribe of North Japan)
• Heaven & Earth
• Izanagi & Izanami

Religious:

• Hindu*
• Judeo-Christian* (Mosaic)
• Indian (Upanishads)
• Pagan Creation Myth (see also Hesiod Creation Myth)
• Sikh Creation Myth
• Vodun Creation Myth (Haiti)
• Zoroastrian* (Persian, from the Bundahishn)

Scientific/Philosophical:

• Accretion theory
• Anaximander
• Anaximenes
• Big Bang*
• Capture theory
• Cosmological inflation*
• Democritus*
• Ekpyrotic universe*
• Modern Laplacian theory
• Modern Nebula theory
• Protoplanet theory
• Pythagoras*
• Spatiomaterialist theory

Miscellaneous:

• The Beliefs of the North American Indians*
• The Big Bang can only be the beginning of matter*
• The Canadian Creation Myth*
• Christian creation myth as symbolism for conscious awakening*
• the Earth was created in 4004 BC*
• Everything Religion*
• The First Three Minutes*
• geezer creation myth*
• Genesis 1 and 2*
• The Halfling Creation Myth*
• Mythos*
• Principia Discordia*
• Quran and the Beginning of the Universe*
• the 'real' creation of the universe*
• Thoughts on Creation
• the three cosmogenic paradoxes*
• Why is the universe here?*