What if the ancient accounts of creation, divine councils and the gods who governed mankind preserve more than myth? This article compares Psalm 82, Genesis, the Enūma Eliš, the Sumerian King List and the later shaping of the Old Testament to ask whether humanity’s origins—and its troubled relationship with its creators—may have been remembered in distorted form.
A retelling of twenty foundational Greek myths, read not as entertaining fables but as early attempts to understand the origins of civilisation itself. From chaos and creation to law, hubris, restraint, and social order, these stories reveal how ancient cultures grappled with power, responsibility, and the fragile balance between destruction and meaning. Read alongside parallel narratives from the Bible, they suggest that the struggle to build and preserve civilisation is a shared human concern — one that transcends time, religion, and geography.