ABSTRACT
As a primordial archetype, the myth of creation explains the origin of the universe, describing how the world and its animate and inanimate entities were created, and visible and invisible forces brought into being. According to the Heliopolitan cosmology based on the earliest Egyptian mythologies that go back to the Old Kingdom, there existed Nun, the primordial ocean in which the germ cells of all things floated. Creation myths accentuate patterns of transformation from nothingness to full existence, from chaos to order, from dark to light, and from meaninglessness to meaningfulness. The myriad number of creation myths can be understood by concentrating on some of their basic commonalities that can be defined as "motifs" or "universal images that have existed since the remotest times". Archetypal patterns implicit in creation myths are not restricted to archaic or folk cultures. Creation myths involve the creation of man by deities or other entities at various stages.
