The creation of human beings has numerous myths and stories that were initially wrote in history. These are stories that tell how the first race of mankind came into being and the different things that the Gods had to encounter during their Creations. When we think of creation, we think of how things were in the beginning of time and how they were suppose to be, based on these stories and myths that are noted. Many people only know of one main creation, and that is the creation that "God" made men of dust in his own image and blew his breath into him. It seems before I started to begin to broaden my knowledge with stories and or myths, I truly believed the same, but now I also can say I've had the opportunity to encounter more than just that one story or myth of creation. The time of today does state that this particular story of "God's Creation" is the true story based on the teachings of today. In this essay, I plan to discuss three simple version of the creation of mankind or what we call human beings. These stories and myths take part first in Ovid's Metamorphoses when Prometheus molded man into mankind, secondly they spoke of Posenberg's World Mythology when the god Quetzacoatl, of this time created mankind from bones that he stole, and finally the new King James version of the Bible when God created man from dust in the image of himself. In all stories the God's work really hard to create the race of mankind and had to encounter different things.
             The first version of the creation of mankind came after the Gods' creation of world was "lacking something." "A holier creature, of a loftier mind, fit master of the rest, was still lacking." (Ovid-Metamorphoses pg 3). The earth that had everything but the race of mankind called on their God Prometheus. Prometheus mixed sand with water in the likeness of Gods that ruled the world. These men were made to g...