Are creation stories more than just explanations of how the world came to be?

[afleitch]

The motifs of the Enuma Elis flow much better, in part because they don’t suffer from the Hebrew inversions.

It states that in the beginning nothing existed except the ‘waters’ and how that was created is unknown and from that mass came two ‘orders’;  demons and gods. That’s quite a transparent admission. Not that anyone ‘created’, or ordered creation, but that from nothingness came orders of beings and that eventually the younger gods usurped the primeval gods, then Marduk fashions the universe from Tiamut’s body. The universe is essentially cannibalised from a god. More so, humans themselves are cannibalised from the blood of another god, Kingu. I love that. How unifying, despite being so macabre.

If one were to postulate now about the myth in the same way people postulate the Hebrew myth, then there's a stark difference from a god being 'first' and making you out of inanimate matter to god being formed and forming us out of the 'stuff' of other gods. I wonder what impact that would have had in human development.