神照自己的形象造人

[Alex]

神就照著自己的形像造人，乃是照著他的形像造男造女。（創1:27）
耶和華神用地上的塵土造人、將生氣吹在他鼻孔裡、他就成了有靈的活人、名叫亞當。（創2:7）




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCwa

Nüwa as a creator

The next major role of Nüwa is of a creator deity. However, not many stories ascribe to her the creation of everything; they usually confine her to the creation of mankind. It is said that Nüwa existed in the beginning of the world. She felt lonely as there were no animals so she began the creation of animals and humans. On the first day she created chickens. On the second day she created dogs. On the third day she created sheep. On the fourth day she created pigs. On the fifth day she created cows. On the sixth day she created horses. On the seventh day she began creating men from yellow clay, sculpting each one individually, yet after she had created hundreds of figures in this way she still had more to make but had grown tired of the laborious process.
So instead of hand crafting each figure, she dipped a rope in clay and flicked it so blobs of clay landed everywhere; each of these blobs became a common person. Nüwa still laboriously crafted some people out of clay, who became nobles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCwa


女媧是個"人頭蛇身"的女神
http://blog.udn.com/vicky56305630/3933689

天地初開時，沒有人類，
女媧遊蕩四方，感到十分寂寞。
她在黃河邊的一個淺灘上坐下的時候，
看到河水映出自己的面影，突然來了靈感。
她順手從地上抓起一把黃泥，放些水進去揉合揉合，
仿照自己的容貌捏成一個娃娃樣的小東西。
說也奇怪，剛把這小東西放在地上，他就活了起來。
女媧用泥巴捏了一個又一個，身邊的小東西越來越多，
她好開心，就把這些小東西叫做"人"。

女媧不停地捏呀捏，終於覺得太累也太麻煩了，
她找來了一些草，編成一根根繩子，
放在泥漿一拖就是一個，工作進度快多了。
大地上不久就佈滿了人類的蹤跡。

但女媧做出來的是人不是神，人是會死的。
為了人類不會滅絕，女媧想出了婚配的辦法，讓人類自己創造自己的後代。



反省問題：
你信不信女媧神如此造人？ Do you believe Creator God Nuwa created human in this way?
你信不信耶和華神如此造人？ Do you believe Creator God YHWH created human in this way?

[Alex]

考古發現女媧造人遺蹟
2006年10月18日
人民報
http://renminbao.com/rmb/articles/2006/10/17/41950b.html

[Alex]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangu

Pangu (盤古) was the first living being and the creator of all in Chinese mythology.

The Pangu legend

In the beginning there was nothing in the universe except a formless chaos. However this chaos coalesced into a cosmic egg for about 18,000 years. Within it, the perfectly opposed principles of Yin and Yang became balanced and Pangu emerged (or woke up) from the egg. Pangu is usually depicted as a primitive, hairy giant with horns on his head and clad in furs. Pangu set about the task of creating the world: he separated Yin from Yang with a swing of his giant axe, creating the Earth (murky Yin) and the Sky (clear Yang). To keep them separated, Pangu stood between them and pushed up the Sky. This task took 18,000 years; with each day the sky grew ten feet (3 meters) higher, the Earth ten feet wider, and Pangu ten feet taller. In some versions of the story, Pangu is aided in this task by the four most prominent beasts, namely the Turtle, the Qilin, the Phoenix, and the Dragon.

After the 18,000 years had elapsed, Pangu was laid to rest. His breath became the wind; his voice the thunder; left eye the sun and right eye the moon; his body became the mountains and extremes of the world; his blood formed rivers; his muscles the fertile lands; his facial hair the stars and milky way; his fur the bushes and forests; his bones the valuable minerals; his bone marrows sacred diamonds; his sweat fell as rain; and the fleas on his fur carried by the wind became the fish and animals throughout the land. Nüwa the Goddess then used the mud of the water bed to form the shape of humans. These humans were very smart since they were individually crafted. Nüwa then became bored of individually making every human so she started putting a rope in the water bed and lettings the drops of mud that fell from it become new humans. These small drops became new humans, not as smart as the first.  ...





Alex's comment:

Pangu believers might say:  
Pangu is the Creator God.  We modern readers need not interpret the story literally.  The purpose of the story is to tell us Pangu is the Creator.  Believe in Him.  How he actually created everything is a mystery beyond human knowledge.  
But then I would ask: Why believe in Pangu in the first place?