In Metamorphoses the air, land, light and.
water (as humans know it) seems to form at one instant when "God, or kindlier.
Nature, [settles] all"(549). In Genesis however, light; heaven; land and.
vegetation; stars, sun and moon; fish; animals and man are created on separate.
days.
Though these two writings are different in many respects, they are.
strikingly similar as well. Both are great and beautiful poems that contiue to.
stand the test of time. They are also written for the purpose of explaining or.
answering some question, whether that be who, what, or how time and existence,.
as it is known today, came to pass.
Both poems give credit for creation to a supreme being or supernatural.
beings. Ovid states that "the gods, who [make] the changes, will help me--or I.
hope so--with a poem"(548). Genesis 1:1 states, "In the beginning God [creates].
the heavens and the earth.".
In both accounts, each describe a "shapelessness" and the earth being.
"formless and void"(549;1:2). There is also "no sun to light the universe,"(Ovid,.
549) so "darkness [is] over the surface of the deep"(Genesis 1:2). There is.
also water, but "water, which no man [can] swim," in both accounts(Ovid, 549). .
In Genesis, the "Spirit of God [is] moving over the surface of the water,".
before any of creation exists(1:2).
Much like the stories of creation in the Bible and Metamorphoses, the.
accounts of the flood in each are very similar while holding firmly to their.
differences.
Like the creation story in Metamorphoses, the flood story gives no.
specific time frame for the length of the flood. However, Genesis gives a.
detailed time frame for this event. The rains last "forty days and forty.
nights"(7:12). When the rain stops, "the water [prevails] upon the earth for.
one hundred and fifty days"(7:24). After ten months, the mountain tops [become].
visible(8:5). At the end of one year, one month, and twenty- seven days, Noah,.
his family, and the various animals exit the ark(8:13-18).
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