A Comparative Study of Genesis Creation Story and Yoruba Myth of Creation

Abstract

The field of comparative studies in the attempt to appreciate the beauty of God's creation has persisted in theological research for common denominator in the myths that surround creation story. For several centuries, many people, especially critical scholars have called attention to the obvious discrepancies between the creation accounts found in different theories. True enough- but the narratives are fundamentally very different and still talking about the sarne event. The aim of this paper is to articulate the relevance of Yoruba myth in comparison to Genesis Creation Story. To this extent, the comparative and theological research methods are employed while relying on secondary sources factual analysis. The research findings revealed that creation theories were theories indicating that the Supreme Being is the originator of all creations. God was the first worker Who created, designed, fashioned, engineered, molded, and constructed the entire universe, therefore He is the base of all theories about the creation of the heaven and the earth propounded by different scholars in the past, present and future world.