Hello All :)
It is my opinion that ancient stories of creation are comparable with the modern formation stories and sometimes they confirm each other and sometimes they don´t. But which are closest to a natural "truth"?
Again IMO ancient stories of creation speaks of a cyclic creation process...
The Parminede´s Poem - Poem of Parmenides : on nature - more than suggest that humans are able to gather knowledge and communicate with the creation as such. A human skill, which is much ignored in the interpreting of the ancient myths.
Excerpt of the poem:
"The steeds that bear me carried me...