The Yoruba Creation Myth

Concerning creation myths, there are three main motifs: the idea of a bloody struggle creating the world, the idea of the Gods taking multiple times to create a good human race, and the idea of the Gods creating humans so that there is someone to take care of the Earth to care for each other and not be alone. Gods, monsters, heroes, and mortals have all been used in countless creation myths in order to help people understand why things are like they are and have been passed throughout the generations and are still around and some myths follow patterns called motifs. Some motifs are more important than others and I will tell you what are the three most important in my opinion and what religions used them. Science tells us that the world was
My favorite creation myths for proving this is the Mayan and the Yoruba creation myth, but this motif appeared in the Theogony as well. The Yoruba creation myth has one god named Obatala that created the world with some help and after he was done with that he had started created humans. When Obatala started creating the humans he was drinking wine and he drank more and more and more until he was finished and he asked Olorun to breathe life into them and he went to bed. When Obatala woke up he saw that the humans he created were deformed and was ashamed of himself for putting them in pain and swore that he would never drink again, so he made more humans and asked Olorun to breath into them and the humans were happy and went to building cities right
In the Chinese creation myth Nu Wa created humans by making them with her hands and when she created them they immediately got up and started dancing and laughing. She very much enjoyed this and it was said that she created humans to fill up the Earth and so that they can come together and make cities. While Nu Wa was making humans she realized how long it would take to make all the humans, so she decided to take a stick and put some mud on the end of the stick with some string and flung the stick and when the mud landed humans would pop up. The humans that Nu Wa made with her own hands were very intelligent and were superior to the ones that were found with the