What came first...?

1.) I beleive that there are many reasons that every culture creates their own creation stories. I believe that humans have a natural tendency to try to explain things that they don't have an explaination for, whether we explain it as supernatural or it just happened that way. I beleive this has something to do with being insecure, or even feeling vunerable when we don't understand things in life. I also believe creation myths have a place in the world today. Look at the debate between Creationists and Evolutionists, this is still a hottly contested debate that has lasted decades.
2.) The different creation stories from the two different cultures reveal much about their views and priorities. Forhe Maori's, they emphasize heavily on the family aspect of life and how important the women are in the culture. They talk a lot about the creation of women and how they relate to the family. The Aborigine's on the other handdeeply respect the insects and animals across their land. They speak very detailed about the creation of animals before the humans. In the Aboriginal story, they state "Then she created fish, snakes, lizards, and frogs."
4.) The stories create multipule eternal problems in the world today. First off, the Aboriginal story explains how the heck a platypus came to be which helped the Aborigine's explain that. Also, both the stories explain how humans came to be and where the sun and moon comes from.