The creation god in Bushongo mythology is called Bumba.

The Bushongo are an ethnic group from the Congo River and surrounding areas.

Bomazi is the ancestor-god of the Bushongo.

* Bumba ( god ), the supreme deity of the Bushongo people.

The most common myths are the creation myths, that tell a story to explain how the earth was formed.

Beowulf channels Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel in its inclusion of references to God's creation of the universe, the story of Cain, Noah and the flood, devils or the Devil, Hell, and the Last Judgement.

The story describes the creation of self-replicating weapons factories designed to destroy the Anabis, a galaxy-spanning malevolent life form bent on destruction of the human race.

Christian Science metaphysics teach that God is Spirit and cites the first chapter of Genesis as the true story of creation, where in the King James Bible, " man " is both " male and female ", created " in the image and likeness " of God.

While creation myths are not literal explications they do serve to define an orientation of humanity in the world in terms of a birth story.

As examples of Biblical myths, Every cites the creation account in Genesis 1 and 2 and the story of Eve's temptation.

Some scholars have argued that the calm, orderly, monotheistic creation story in Genesis 1 can be interpreted as a reaction against the creation myths of other Near Eastern cultures.

In connection with this interpretation, David and Margaret Leeming describe Genesis 1 as a " demythologized myth ", and John L. McKenzie asserts that the writer of Genesis 1 has " excised the mythical elements " from his creation story.

In his Creation Myths of the World, David Leeming argues that, in the Christian story of the crucifixion, the cross serves as " the axis mundi, the center of a new creation ".

In The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, David Leeming notes that, in the Bible story, as in other flood myths, the flood marks a new beginning and a second chance for creation and humanity.

Although mythical elements are not so prominent in Exodus as in Genesis, the echoes of ancient legends are crucial to understanding the book's origins and purpose: for example, the story of the infant Moses's salvation from the Nile has its basis in an earlier legend of king Sargon, while the story of the parting of the Red Sea trades on Mesopotamian creation mythology.

One of the first writers of science fiction was Mary Shelley, whose novel Frankenstein ( 1818 ) dealt with the asexual creation of new life, a re-telling of the Adam and Eve story.

Legends of the Jews is an original synthesis of a vast amount of aggadah from all of classical rabbinic literature, as well as apocryphal, pseudopigraphical and even early Christian literature, with legends ranging from the creation of the world and the fall of Adam, through a huge collection of legends on Moses, and ending with the story of Esther and the Jews in Persia.

A story that ran for several weeks in the Sunday comics of Li ' l Abner during 1967 concerned the creation of a joke, never actually revealed, that was so funny that anyone who heard it immediately died laughing.

The story of Murray and Minor later served as the central focus of a popular 20th-century book about the creation of the OED.

The Quran recounts the story of when the descendants of Adam were brought forth before God to testify that God alone is the Lord of creation and therefore only He is worthy of worship ( Quran chapter 7, verse 172 ), so that on the Day of Judgement, people could not make the excuse that they only worshipped others because they were following the ways of their ancestors.

" Gramma ", a short story made into a film in the 1980s anthology horror show The New Twilight Zone, mentions Lovecraft's notorious fictional creation Necronomicon, also borrowing the names of a number of the fictional monsters mentioned therein.

Discussing the creation of Night of the Living Dead, Romero remarked, " I had written a short story, which I basically had ripped off from a Richard Matheson novel called I Am Legend.

In the Babylonian creation story Enuma Elish the universe was in a formless state and is described as a watery chaos.

The Judeo-Christian story of creation describes God creating birds, and commanding them to multiply, but makes no direct mention of eggs.

In related stories, the creation idea is caused by a single entity emanating or producing something by him-or herself, as in the Tibetan Buddhism concept of Adi-Buddha, the ancient Greek story of Gaia ( Mother Earth ), the Aztec goddess Coatlicue myth, the ancient Egyptian god Atum story, or the Genesis creation narrative.

Zing was the creation of two men, Louis Thor and Bill Blake, partners in zing!!

It was `` the creation of a monstrous historical period wherein it thought it had to synthesize literature and politics and avant-garde art of every kind with its writers crazily trying to outdo each other in Spenglerian inclusiveness.

That achievement was his creation of the universal grinding machine, which made its appearance in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

The principal theme of Thomas's poetry was the ambivalence of birth and death -- the pain of blood-stained creation.

The third amended the enabling act for creation of the Lamar county Hospital District, for which a special constitutional amendment previously was adopted.

Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto in particular focused on the ' purpose of creation ' and how the will of God was to bring creation into perfection and adhesion with this upper force.

From the mid-1980s through at least 1992, the United States was the primary source of military and other support for the UNITA rebel movement, which was led from its creation through 2002 by Jonas Savimbi.

For example, the creation of argon fluorohydride ( HArF ), a marginally stable compound of argon with fluorine and hydrogen, was reported by researchers at the University of Helsinki in 2000.

" The character Snake says it was written by Abdul Alhazred and was said to be one of the books used in the creation of the Necronomicon.

Before the creation of the world, God was all by Himself, in a Self-absorbed state.

Arcadianism was based on nostalgic memories of rural England, and led to the widespread creation of orchards and gardens.

The Apple I was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his only means of transportation, a VW van and Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $ 500.

This was connected to a devout religiosity that declared depiction of living things in art an immoral rivalry to Allah's creation.

He was instrumental in the creation of Pakistan.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

Alfred's military reorganisation of Wessex consisted of three elements: the building of thirty fortified and garrisoned towns ( burhs ) along the rivers and Roman roads of Wessex ; the creation of a mobile ( horsed ) field force, consisting of his nobles and their warrior retainers, which was divided into two contingents, one of which was always in the field ; and the enhancement of Wessex's seapower through the addition of larger ships to the existing royal fleet.

* 1980 – After two weeks of nationwide strikes, the Polish government was forced to sign the Gdańsk Agreement, allowing for the creation of the trade union Solidarity.

The creation of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1910 was regarded as a milestone on the road to the ultimate goal of abolition of war.