Creation Stories from around the World

Wise & Wide is a 6-level English reading program that consists of 60 books and each level is
systematically divided by Lexile Ⓡ measures. The Lexile Ⓡ Framework for Reading is the most popular reading measuring system in American formal education curriculums and many English programs.
Over 20 out of 50 states in the U.S. mark Lexile Ⓡ measures directly on students’ final report cards and over 300 well-known publishers adopt and use Lexile Ⓡ measures.
Experience many kinds of readings written by professional writers from the U.S. and England. They used interesting topics that were carefully chosen after analyzing elementary curriculums from around the world including Korea, the U.S., England, and Australia among many others.

Before Reading

Who created the world?
How was the first human created?

How was the Earth that we live in created? Furthermore, how was the universe born? Mankind has always been curious about these questions since long before the recorded history; however, no one has ever definitively satisfied this curiosity. Therefore, in every country people have used their imagination to make up Creation stories or they have added to the stories that have been passed down to them usually by word of mouth. These mysterious and interesting stories from around the world are based on the culture and lifestyle of the people who tell them.

Summary

When many people think about “Creation,” Genesis from the Bible comes to their mind first. As the story goes, God created the first humans, Adam and Eve. The serpent tricked Eve into eating the forbidden fruit that God had asked them not to eat and they were thrown out of the Garden of Eden.
In the book, we introduce four more Creation stories besides Genesis. In the Northern European story, a frost giant, Ymir died and his body became the mountains and the seas. In the African story, Obatala created the Earth using sand and a hen. In the third story, the North American one, the Kingdom of Heaven was too small for animals to live in, so they created land under the heavens where before there had been only water and then they went to this land to live. In the final story from China, a dog named Pangu died and became the sun, the moon, the mountains and the rivers. To further compare how these Creation stories differ from each other, shall we meet the characters in these stories?