Every culture has its own story to explain how everything came to be. The plants, the animals, and us humans, we all had to come from somewhere, right? Whether the universe was made by gods ...

Aztec mythology tells the fascinating story of how the world came to be, through the actions and sacrifices of powerful gods. In this animated video, explore the creation myth of the Aztecs, where ...

In their great creation myth, the enuma elish, Marduk, the city god of patriarchal Babylon, defeats the old mother goddess, now a mother monster called Tiamat. And he creates the world out of her ...

The world's creation stories have a colorful cast. Artist Noah MacMillan set out to capture nine such tales, from the Aztecs to the Inuit.

From creation myths to comic books, athletes to artists, the way we describe ourselves and the world around us is primarily through mythic origin stories.

Photograph of illustration by Leonard de Selva, Corbis Lunar Eclipse Myths From Around the World Many cultures view the disappearance of the moon as a time of danger and chaos.

The legend is just one of many fables about creation. The colourful tales from around the world have been a subject of fascination for award-winning choreographer Helen Lai.

Anthropologist Alexander F. Chamberlin wrote in 1896 of international myths that describe children emerging from natural landscapes, including caverns and cabbage patches.