A series of Origin Stories read by your host, Peter Crow

I thought it would be appropriate to initiate my first podcast by reading a series of Beginnings.

Whether or not you have kids, imagine a curious 5-year-old approaching you and asking sincerely, hopefully where the universe came from. Do you feel equipped? Are you going to feed them the same old line that you were given by your science teacher? Or will you rise to this occasion of mythic proportions?

Myths of Creation included in this episode:

Outyard's first intro ever!
birth stories of Peter Crow's 2 children
Dogon Egg of Creation
God hatches woman & man from an Egg with a song
the First Father of Gauranis
Norse Eddas; the creation and dismemberment of Ymir the Frost Giant
The Sky Woman of the Iroqouis creates Turtle Island
Cherokee: Grandmother Spider Steals the Sun
Kloskurbeh the all-maker and First Mother
the Mayan days of Creation
The Four Creations of the Hopi, Sotuknang & Spider Woman
Pachakamak the Creator of Peru
New Zealand: Tangaruwa hatches from an Egg
The time before people; Beaver steals fire and shapes the river
Greek myth of Gaia, and the Oracle of Themis
Yoruba tale of The Golden Chain
Chinese tale of Pan-Gu & Nu-Wa, another egg hatching, another giant...
Geometer's myth: the Universe was made with a Compass
Wabanaki / Algonquin: Glooskap the Divinity and his brother Malsumsis the Wolf
How Glooskap made the elves and faeries, and then Man of an Ash Tree
Of Osiris, the Egyptian god of death and resurrection
Oklahoma Wichita: The Moon and the Morning Star
Zimbabwe: Life from the Moon and Stars
Babylon: Marduk creates the world from the spoils of battle
Cherokee story of Earth-making
The Earth Dragon
Brahma, Creation by and of the Self
Who made Paul Bunyan?