By Dr. Ethel Nelson
The Genesis account of Creation is not unique. Many ancient peoples, such as the Sumerians, the Karens in Burma, and the Miao tribes of Southern China, possess fragments of this story. This shouldn’t surprise us because the Creation story was related by Noah and his sons to post-Flood generations.1
China has perhaps the most detailed record of Earth’s beginnings. Portions of the story are found in ancient Chinese myths. But the most detailed Creation narrative can be found in the pictographic characters of the Chinese language itself, demonstrating that the knowledge of Creation was taken with them after they scattered from the tower that God cursed.2
Today’s Chinese characters have remained essentially unchanged for more than 2,000 years. They’re shorthand renditions of earlier, more pictographic script. One of the most ancient known forms is the “bronzeware” characters dating back to the Shang Dynasty (c. 1766–1122 BC), found embossed
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The late Dr. Ethel R. Nelson, a physician and former missionary to Southeast Asia, authored several books presenting fascinating insights about the ancient Chinese, God, and the Bible.