...dds: "The '''Leviathan was a monstrous fish''' created on the fifth day of Creation. Its story is related at length in the Talmud ''Baba Bathra 74b'', where it
...milar monsters who represented the sea as a foe to the gods in [[mythology|myth]]s of nearby cultures.
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...nd supports, a particular cosmogonic, metaphysical, and mystical vision of creation and life. (1983:209)
* Girardot, Norman J. 1983. ''Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism: The Theme of Chaos (Hun-Tun)''. University of
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In common usage, ''myth'' means a falsehood — a story which many believe but which is not true. T
...to 1781 (OED). The adjective ''mythical'' dates to 1678; English use of ''myth'' is later, in its meaning of "untrue story" first attested in 1830.
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...Zelia Bishop's "The Mound" (1940). Lovecraft effectively connected Smith's creation to his story-cycle by placing Tsathoggua alongside such entities as Tulu (C
...lieved that Lovecraft wanted other authors to actively ''write about'' the myth-cycle rather than to simply ''allude to'' it in their stories.
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...em in it. Subsequent visual interpretations of the story have included the creation of Frankenstein's monster through alchemy, by the piecing together of corps
...eal, Victor goes hiking into the mountains where he encounters his "cursed creation" again, this time on the Mer de Glace, a glacier above Chamonix.
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Joseph Campbell in the ''The Power of Myth'' viewed the dragon as a symbol of divinity or transcendence because it rep
...mer time. Some people think this comes from an older Mesopotamian creation myth in which Tiamat is depicted as a goddess salt-water sea monster, while othe
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===Appearance and Myth===
...as the Absolute content of pure consciousness (with all the activities of creation, preservation or dissolution) one refers to it as Kali or Shakti. However,
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'''Atlach-Nacha''' is the creation of [[Clark Ashton Smith]] and first appeared in his short story "The Seven
Some were the figures of well-known myth — [[gorgon]]s, [[chimaera]]s, [[dragon]]s, [[cyclops]], and all their
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...o Enlil (En = Lord, Lil = Wind), King of the Gods. A separate fragmentary myth describes how Enlil raped Ninlil, and as punishment he was sent to the unde
In the transfer from Sumerian myth to Babylonian Akkadian, it is suggested that Ninlil became Lilitu (-*itu be
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...nclusion of her mother's ideas in her work is also related to the theme of creation/motherhood in the novel.
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...as a bed for the sleeping Vishu as the god dreams our very existence into creation.
...nakes are known as as nags, an extremely old Sanscript term for them. This myth would have also been reinforced by raiding pirates from the outside world t
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...s believed to have been an [[archangel]] who turned against God before the creation of man. Prophecies in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 are thought by some to be re
The creation story found in the book of Genesis reports that a serpent tempted Adam and
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...e entrance to Shiva's place. Garuda wondered aloud: "How marvelous is this creation! One who has created these lofty mountains has also made this tiny bird --
...where she was guarded by serpents. The serpents are, according to another myth, the sons of Kadru herself.
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...ge upon seeing her reflection in a body of water (a reference to the Greek myth of Narcissus). It is her vanity that Satan taps into in order to persuade h
...n of God in action, the physical connection between God the Father and his creation, together forming a complete and perfect God. He personifies love and compa
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in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. He is the creation of [[Clark Ashton Smith]] and is part of his [[Hyperborean cycle]].
...pts and the Necronomicon and the [[Hyperborean cycle#Commoriom|Commoriom]] myth-cycle preserved by the [[Atlantis|Atlantean]] high-priest [[Cthulhu Mythos
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...eceased. Subsequently, this apparent infidelity of Osiris was explained in myth, in which it was said that a sexually frustrated Nepthys had disguised hers
Some more homophobic versions of the myth depict [[Set]] as the father.
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The Fates were assisted by the god Hermes in the creation of the Pelasgian alphabet. They also helped the Olympian Gods on more than
* Carl Ruck and Danny Staples, ''The World of Classical Myth'', 1994.
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* [[Antelopes with Six Legs]] - According to Siberian myth, these six-legged antelopes were far too fast for human beings to catch. A
* [[Eater of the Dead]] - Most commonly associated with Egyptian myth, the Eater attends to the "wicked". It is described as having the head of a
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...nd Piccard. Their retelling of the Spear myth stretches from its purported creation in 3061 B.C. by Tubal-Cain, seventh generation grandson of Adam (the Spear
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...other angels showed a degree of suspicion when God informed them about the creation of man as the regent (caliph) of all things on Earth, but they ultimately p
...Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, as this is an allusion to the Genesis myth) in order to expose the Abrahamic God for the evil being he truly was. Stre
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