Creation Stories: Similarities Between West African And Genesis

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With ever nationality there is a different creation story, to explain the presence of the things we have today with the Solar System, division of land and water, But the similarities and difference I will be toughing on is between West African and Genesis. West African and Genesis creation stories have similarities about how they were created and how humans came about. In the West African and Genesis creation both share the similarity of the Earth starting as nothing but water “All life existed in the sky, Obatala poured sand in the ocean and it separated water from land, then he through a fire ball to melt wet places.” As stated in the comparison chart in the West African section. “In the beginning god created the heaven and the Earth, And

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