there had to be authors/writers who created the myths. These creators were responsible for everything that came about into mythology. They started the ideas and thought of each story or myth, picked which god was to be in the myth and picked what was going to be explained in each myth. In Greece the creators put themselves into the stories, making themselves part of the story, while in Egypt the creators stayed away from the stories and just wrote them without become involved. Some of the creators in Egypt believed it to be a sin to involve themselves in the stories (Patrick 14). The creators were the basis for mythology and everything that branched from it. From the creators came the stories, the building blocks of mythology for both of these countries. Each country told its stories differently but was still based upon the same central ideas. The Greeks based their stories upon two of the main Gods for Mt. Olympus, each in a different human form for each story. The Egyptians had two gods and the peasants that they ruled in each of their different kingdoms (Patrick 14). Not only did the Egyptians incorporate the peasants into the stories, they added a moral to the myths, almost making a fable out of the stories as well as a myth (Edwards 3). The Greeks had stories about the gods, the festivals of the gods, the birth of the gods and the death of the gods, while Egypt had stories only about their Gods lives ( Cavendish 67). The main cause in the difference of these countries stories was how the country itself developed. As the countries of Egypt and Greece developed differently so did their mythology. Greek Mythology was set on one solid belief, based on the gods that lived atop Mt. Olympus; Egyptian mythology based itself on various beliefs and rituals which determined how long it would last (St. John 65). Because the Egyptian mythology was based on this large variety, the stories became shorter based on one of their beliefs or ...
