Myth: An Orgota Creation Myth

One myth from The Left Hand of Darkness that stood out was Chapter 17, An Orgota Creation Myth. The chapter talks and how there was once a whole planet with only the sun and ice, but one day the ice decides to melt into three different shapes. One shape went into the ice cracks creating land, another radiates on the ice melting it creating rivers and oceans, the last one created the plants, trees and people. This chapter told me that the Gethen culture is not much different from ours; they just have another way of telling the story resembling our bible. This particular myth relates to the direct plot of the story because the Gethenians we’re born in a house of flesh and death will seem to follow them everywhere.