What if the devil was never a monster hiding beneath the earth, but rather parts of humanity we fear most? What if our ancestors were just trying to explain the chaos inside of us?

By the time we come to later religions, the focus shifts from what is destroying my crops or what is making me sick to what is destroying my soul. Now, demons become associated with pride, lust, envy, and temptation. “See, the war is never over; the battlefields just moved. There will always be a war, whether outward or within. You have to either fight it or flee for the rest of your life.”

Lifespans and longevity are among the strongest shared memories we have on Earth. This pattern shows up in every culture, even cultures that have supposedly not even come close to being in contact with each other. I think we may be missing something that they may have understood back then from a philosophical standpoint.

Somewhere you have ultimate spiritual fulfillment, somewhere that balance and harmony is maintained, somewhere suffering and pain doesn’t exist, somewhere something means nothing but to exist. This place is called Paradise.

The ancients had a more spiritual ideology of creation, and we still do now, but we just kind of still go off of their ideology in all aspects. Let's go through some of the creation myths and see if maybe we can find something to bring enlightenment to this subject.

Many of us know the modern or biblical creation myth with Adam and Eve. Many of us have also heard the scientific stance of human creation based on humans belonging to the primate family and evolving over time to become what and who we are today. But do you know the other human creation myths? If not, you might be surprised at the similarities that are shared between what we may believe today and what the ancient people believed.

Many of the ancient cultures learned about the flood seasons as we know them now and prepared for them. Some even built flood walls. Egyptians often welcomed the flood from the Nile as it fertilized their lands, but when things turn into a catastrophe, there isn’t much you can do, even to this day. A big question of interest to people like me is why floods are so common in myths.