A Greek Creation Myth

     What creation stories do you guys like best? I was thinking about it today, and one of my favourite creation stories has to be one from Greek mythology.
     It all starts out with nothingness as a lot of creation stories do. Suddenly, Gaia (who is the earth in Greek mythology), Erebus (representing darkness), Nyx (representing the night), Tartarus (an abyss where sinners are sent to suffer for eternity), and Eros (who represents love) appear out of the nothingness. Gaia gives birth to Uranus (who is the sky in Greek mythology, and who becomes her husband) and they have twelve kids together- six girls and six guys. Uranus isn't that great a dad, seeing as he throws some of his kids into Tartarus.
     Gaia isn't very happy about this, so she convinces her youngest son, Cronus, to castrate his dear old dad. He does and becomes the king of the gods. Later, Cronus and his wife, Rhea, have their own children, but Cronus is also a pretty bad father. Every time Rhea has a child, he swallows it, because he's afraid one of them will rise up against him the same way he did against Uranus.             
     Eventually, Rhea tricks him into eating a rock and is able to save her child, Zeus, and raise him to adulthood. Zeus gives Cronus a poisoned drink that makes Cronus vomit all of the godly children up and the children go to war against Cronus and his siblings. Zeus and his siblings are victorious and imprison Cronus and his siblings in Tartarus.
     Two of Zeus' sons, Prometheus and Epimetheus, go to Earth. Prometheus creates humanity while Epimetheus creates the animal kingdom. Zeus orders the two brothers to give humanity and the animals gifts, but all of the gifts end up getting given to the animals, leaving the humans with nothing. Prometheus, being a kind creator, steals fire from the other gods and gives it to man as his gift.
     Of course, Zeus is displeased, and punishes Prometheus by chaining him to a mountain and having a bird peck out his liver every day for eternity (or at least until Hercules comes by and saves him). This kind of puts things in perspective for me. I always complained about my dad growing up, but at least he didn't try to eat me or have my liver pecked out by birds.
    This was just a short summary of the Greek creation myth, but if you want to read more, search the internet or go to your local library so you can read this story in better detail.
  

Sources:
http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/The_Myths/The_Creation/the_creation.html
http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/The_Myths/The_Creation_II/the_creation_ii.html
http://dept.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_16.html