...se Yaa. Her role explains the creation of the sky god in two very similar myths.
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...se Yaa. Her role explains the creation of the sky god in two very similar myths.
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...erg, writing in the late 19th century, drew a parallel between the Norse [[creation myth]]s and Zoroastrian mythology that sports a primeval ox which is vario
...the udders of a heavenly cow. Hathor also has a role in Egyptian creation myths. Due to the large distance in time and space separating the Old Norse and A
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...portrays him as a fire serpent, a winged dragon that breathes fire. Older myths describe him as a smith god, identified with the generative and sexual powe
...f the dead (Nav), bringing order (Prav). Zmey takes over the dead. In some myths, the ploughed ditch becomes the Smorodina River, and Zmey becomes the guard
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...n ''monster hunters'' who seem convinced that this infamous figure of the myths of the Nguni(a S.Eastern arm of the greater Bantu family and common ancesto
...d the rivers and lakes with every kind of fish. After his great efforts of creation were finally over, he thaught the ancestors how to till the soil and rear a
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...shape monsters, from the numerous dragons and snakes of the first creation myths to the legendary hybrid and fantastic creatures
===Creation===
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==Snakes and creation==
...many creation myths, for example many peoples in Africa and Australia had myths about a Rainbow Snake, which was either Mother Earth herself giving birth t
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The Shanhaijing collection of early myths and legends uses hundun 渾敦 describing a shen 神 "spirit; god" on Tian
...nd supports, a particular cosmogonic, metaphysical, and mystical vision of creation and life. (1983:209)
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These creation myths date from the 3rd to the 6th century. The first writer to record the myth o
[[Category: Creation myths]]
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...ior without the need to resort to actual punishment. Drawbacks include the creation of [[phobia]]s, and a general distrust of one's parents when one learns tha
...ly refer to a [[supernatural]] tale involving [[god]]s, [[spirit]]s, the [[creation]] of the world, and so forth.
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According to Enûma Elish, the Babylonian epic of creation (dated at around 1700 BCE, but aspects of the story could go back to about
*Stephanie Dalley, Myths from Mesopotamia (Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 329.
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...battle between the god Baal and another monster called Leviathan. Hittite myths contain accounts of a battle between the weather god and the dragon Illuyan
...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
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...anch of knowledge dealing with the collection, study and interpretation of myths.
..., in the meaning "an exposition of myths". The current meaning of "body of myths" itself dates to 1781 (OED). The adjective ''mythical'' dates to 1678; Engl
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...he’ people of the Guatemalan Highlands. The Popol Vuh tells of the K’iche’ creation story and translates as the ‘The Book of the People’ in the K’iche’
Some myths claim that, during the day, Camazotz would turn into a stone statue and the
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==Goddess of creation==
...em are known by names like “one-night's-work.” [Wood-Martin, 134] Scottish myths often cast the Cailleach as a shaper of the landscape. She carried earth an
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...that some of the early [[Israelite]] views about the [[creation (theology)|creation]] of the world and of humanity are derived from the mythology and folklore
The natural tendency to create myths, denigrated as it had been by the Jewish prophets, returned with force duri
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The underlying idea which is expressed or manifested in the creation of a work generally cannot be the subject of copyright law. Mathematical fo
...agency of the United States government are public domain at the moment of creation. Examples are: NASA photographs, military journalism, federal court opinion
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...undamental, the creation is derivative, and nature as the physical part of creation is still further downstream. [http://acs.ucsd.edu/~idea/dembskivantill.htm]
...ay be explained by scientific theories, while others could be dismissed as myths. Volcanoes were once considered deities and natural calamities the actions
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...the Roman Catholic Church talks about). Bondyè is distant from his/her/its creation though, and so it is the spirits or the "mysteries", "saints", or "[[angel]
====Myths and misconceptions====
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...ants of the Indian sub-continent. This conflict became the subject of many myths handed down about Kali's fierce passion in defending her people against the
...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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