The Similarity in Creation Myths

Most creation accounts are stories, not to tell of the physical creation, but to teach a moral standard  as in hero stories. They often are used to instruct a culture about some tradition. Many creation myths, have a primary purpose to describe creation.  But many are concerned with problems of living and life. 

There is a basic similarity between most creation myths and Genesis. Among the aspects of the early history of the world found in Genesis which are also found in many creation stories are the confusion of tongues at Babel, and the flood account. In addition to Scripture, aspects of the Tower of Babel account are also found in Syrian, Sumerian, Greek, Babylonian, Chinese, Hindu, Persian and even the American Indian creation stories.

The Biblical account of a universal flood is part of the mythology and legend of almost every culture on earth. Even people living far from the sea as the American Southwest and the Incas in the Andes mountainous region have legends of a great flood washing over the land, covering the tops of mountains and wiping out virtually all life on earth

Where do these creation stories originate. Was there a time in the history of the world when there was once one advanced civilization.  Often there is found in these creation myths such a story about a supreme society which man in his search for immortality destroyed all that the world had accomplished at the time and left it destitute of life except for the ones needed for procreation of the new world that found favor with the God or Gods they believed in.