"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind". Creation myths were important to the cultures that created them because they explained the great actions that show how the world started and where the people came from. These are the big questions of life.

Themes of water, gods and nothingness are at the center of many creation myths. This is unusual because even though their ways of life and belief are so different, cultures in very different places created myths that are very similar to each other.

An example of this is that in many creation myths water is very important. In the Mayan Myth the gods washed away the people to create new ones. Another example is in the Egyptian Myth in which the gods' tears became people.

In the beginning of many myths there were gods. For example in the Chinese myth there is Phan Ku, the god that created life. Another example is in the Babylonian Myth in which there is Tiamat, the goddess of ocean. This shows that in many cultures, people share the same beliefs.

A similar element in many myths is the explanation of how the universe changed from when there was nothing and then there was something which became the beginning of life. For example in the Phan Ku myth there is nothing except the giant egg containing all the forces of yin and yang, and then there is something because Phan Ku the dragon breaks the egg and creates life.

Another example is in the Egyptian myth in which the nothingness is called Nu which is the chaos which existed before time. As we can see, many elements in myth started from nothingness, and then the world was created and became something through the actions of the gods. These beliefs are similar even though the places where they came from are very far away from each other.

Creation myths explain the powerful actions that created the world and people in it. "Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind".