There is a fundamental question for which almost every culture frames some sort of answer:  How did things come to be in the beginning?  Typically, the answer to this question is expressed in the form of a mythic story.  These mythic tales serve more than one function, because in accounting for the origins of the world and its people they also provide both an account and a justification of the present order of things.  (We are in the present context obviously not using the word “myth” in its frequent modern connotation as “an oversimplified primitive story” or worse yet “an outmoded idea now known to be useless and wrong.”  “Myth” in the sense intended here means a shared narrative expressing truths not expressible by ordinary logical discourse.)    Traditionally, cosmogony (account of the origins) and cosmology (account of the order of things) were linked together in a way that people understood.  Our modern culture has lost these things, because in place of a creation myth that gives meaning to the present, we instead have the science of physical cosmology.  The fundamental role of science is to bring order to our empirical observations, and physical cosmology excellently accomplishes this role, but the cultural role of myth is more subtle and complex.  Our craving for an understanding of our origins is a deeply felt cultural universal.  Creation myths are not merely stories that satisfy a vague curiosity but rather are connected to fundamental issues of ontological import and existential being in the world.  But even beyond this fundamental significance, the questions of origins are always tied to questions of the presently existing order of things.  In the traditional sense, cosmology had such a mythic dimension, but this has been shorn from the contemporary meaning of the word.  In the modern scientific sense, cosmology simply means that the object of investigation of this science is the entire universe taken as a whole.  In this paper, we will explore in more detail the meaning of physical cosmology, the cultural role of creation myths, and the interrelationships that may exist between these differing attempts to organize our understanding of the world.  More specifically, we will consider the question of whether the narrative associated with physical cosmology, suitably interpreted and augmented, might be able to supply the dimensions of meaning and value offered by a mythic account, and how this might be attempted.  In the course of this exploration, we will review the scientific basis of physical cosmology, the content of creation myths from several cultures, approaches from a number of contemporary projects of this sort, and a new approach based on the author’s previous epistemological work.