My Own Myth

The Story of Maryland - A myth by Phoebe

In the deep ocean of the Pacific, there were many kinds of animals, fish of all kinds, crabs, and as many mollusks as you could count. One day the king blue crab of the Pacific had gotten into an argument with another king crab. The two crabs were always fighting, they would fight over anything they could possibly fight about. "The Pacific Ocean is not big enough for the both of us!", said the king blue crab. "Then I guess we'll have to fight for it!" said the other. So the two crabs fought, and fought, and fought. The rockfish and the oysters were on the king blue crabs side, they fought alongside the mighty blue crab for as long as time, until the other king crab finally caught up with the blue crab. The battle was indeed great, but the blue crab was not as strong as the other crab, and so he lost the battle. And as the blue crab king was dying, all of the blue crabs and rockfish and oysters carried him to safety to what is now the Chesapeake Bay, finally laid to rest, where his mighty claw became the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. And even now, all of the blue crabs and rockfish and oysters stayed alongside their mighty king at his final resting place.

Creation Myths

Creation myths are all very similar, beginning with how a place, or something in the world came about. Most creation myths start out with a main character, who goes about there regular life, but something ends up happening which ends with a result of a new creation. Not all creation myths are like this, because wherever the myth derived from, they are bound to have different qualities in the myth. For example, one myth could be about how the gods created humans, others could be about how humans came from the earth. It all depends on where the myth came from, how one thing came about in one culture, could be extremely different in another culture.