Aztec And Shinto Similarities

After reviewing the both the Aztec, and Shinto Japanese versions on how the world was created. When comparing the two, I found that both civilizations had similar beginnings such as, the world starting out as just water, gods were required for the creation of land, and that both view the countries as the origin points of the worlds creation.
While both civilizations have some similarities in the origin stories, the meanings behind the stories are very different from one another. In Aztec’s version of creation focused on how gods used the body of the sea creature Cipactli as the means to create the world, while the Shinto version focused on the two deities Izanagi, and Izanami creating Japan through intercourse. Another difference would be

that Aztec gods were allowed to create the earth as they wanted, while the Shinto deities were ordered to do so by older deities. Then finally the Aztec creation story did not really imply any form of gender roles, while the Shinto version of the worlds creation made a possible reference to gender roles in reference to the difficulties that Izanagi, and Izanami had in creating the islands due to the order in which they greeted one another affected the births.
Overall each civilization has a different way of explaining how the world was created. Ranging from the Aztecs belief that the world was made from the corpse of a massive sized sea creature, to islands that were made when two deities decided to do the horizontal Charleston. As stated earlier, each society has their own version of how the earth was created. By reviewing, and comparing both the Aztec, and Shinto creation stories, I hope you could gain a better understanding about how both view the worlds creation