The Three Main Motifs Of Creation Myths

Concerning creation myths, I think the 3 main motifs are: the idea of why humans are created last. The idea of why the younger gods overthrow the older gods. The last being the idea why all humans were created with organic materials. There are so many motifs and creation myths I could list them forever. Surprisingly at least 2 creation myths or more have the same motifs or closely related ones, why and how I don’t know but I did some research on why things happened the way did. Here’s what I found. The first and most important motif in my opinion is why humans are created last. Many Creation myths including the Inuit whose god, Raven accidently created humans because they were born from the pea pods he created without thought. The chinese human creator Nuwa was happy with what Pan-gu did with the
I have a lot of creation myths were they were made from clay/mud and even corn paste. Some materials worked better than others. The gods also only had limited sources around them to begin with. In the Greek (Theogony) creation Athena made humans from clay/mud and water. All though some were from sex or even just thought into family trees. The Mayan creation had a few attempts until they realized white corn paste makes the best humans. In one creation (Inuit) the humans were accidentally born from pea pods. Raven was just creating plants and things when a he saw a man while flying. The Yourban human creator Obatala got drunk while making the first humans out of clay that they all came out deformed so he had to remake them. He then became the god of all deformed and swore to never drink again. The chinese creation had a women named Nuwa who was so lonely she decided to build the humans from mud. She realized it would take so long so she flung mud from a stick making humans faster and easier, the ones she built from hand were smarter than the ones built from