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Creation Myths
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Amma and Nummo Prepare the World
- Nigeria, Africa – Dogon Tribe
- Type of Myth: Secretion Myth
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The Story
- Amma rapes Earth-Mother through anthill; results in Jackal
- Amma creates Nummo pair through intercourse with Earth
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The Story
- Jackal incestuously rapes Earth-Mother
- Amma rejects her
- Nummo self-propagate into 8 ancestors
- 7th ancestor falls from grace, urinates to purify world
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The Creation, from The Eddas
- Iceland – Norse Myth
- Type of Myth: Secretion and Sacrifice Myth
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The Story
- Ymir - frost giant: perspires out first man, woman, and cow
- Ymir’s descendants kill him and use his body to create the Earth
- Flesh = earth ; bones =mountains; blood= lakes
- Gods create Asgard- a sort of heaven
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From Chaos to King Zeus, from Hesiod's Theogony
From Chaos to King Zeus, from Hesiod's Theogony
- Type of Myth
- Accretion
- Conjunction
- Theogony
- Genuine mythic consciousness
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Gods
- Chaos (Kronos)
- Gaia
- Ouranos
- Eros
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The Beginning
- CHAOS-->EREBOS-->BLACK NIGHT
- NIGHT-->AIR & DAY (Children)
- A God is in love with EROBOS
- GAIA (earth) birth to OURANOS
- GAIA birth to High Mountains
- Nymphs lived in the
mountain valley
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Born Gods from GAIA:
- PONTOS + OURANOS = OCEAN
- KIOS & KRIOS
- HYPERION & LAPETOS
- THEIA & RHEA
- THEMIS & MNEMOSYNE
- PHOEBE
- TETHYS
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Lessons to be Learned
- Most dreadful God=KRONOS
- KRONOS overcomes his father OURANOS
- ZEUS overcomes his father KRONOS
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The Creation of Ulligara and Zalgarra.
- Sumarian Myth
- Iraq: The tablets of the myth were found approximately 800BCE
- Type of Myth: Secretion / Sacrifice
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Gods Who Represent the Four Elements
- Anu (god of air and sky)
- Enlil (god of the storms and earth)
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Gods
- Shamash (god of sun and fire)
- Ea (god of water)
- Anunnaki (destiny)
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The Creation of Ulligara and Zalgarra.
- Gods kill 2 Lagma Gods in order to create humankind.
- The blood of slain Lagma Gods = ingredient for the creation.
- Ulligara (the establisher of abundance) and Zalgarra (establisher of plenty) created.
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Reason For Creation
- Creating humans to do the God’s daily labor
- Build temples/shrines
- Grow crops/tend fields
- Raise livestock
- Celebrate the Gods with offerings
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Creation Myth from the Vishnu Purana
- Hindu (Indian)
- From Vedic texts – Puranas
- Type of Myth: Division/Consummation; Earth-Diver
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Vishnu
- The Supreme Being
- Avatars: many forms/names
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Brahma
- Brahma: self-born in the lotus flower
- Other interpretations:
- born in water / a seed that became the golden egg.
- Remains of the golden egg expanded into the Universe.
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Creation Myth from the Vishnu Purana
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Popul Vuh
- Mayan Creation Myth
- Type of Myth : Deus Faber (“The Maker God”)
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The Story
- Dual creator - three attempts to create man.
- 1st attempt: man out of clay but rain comes-washed away.
- 2nd attempt : man out of wood but no mind, no hearts -wiped by flood.
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The Story
- 3rd attempt: grind corn and shaped it but too perfect
- Outcome: decided to remake the corn-made man - impairing their eye sight and understanding
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Popul Vuh
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Genesis
- Hebrew – Middle East
- Type of Myth:
- Deus Faber
- Ex Nihilo (Out of Nothing)
- Seen in many religions:
- Islam, Christianity, Catholicism, and Judaism
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Genesis
- God “speaking into existence” = Universe
- God creates mankind - out of the dust = Adam
- Adam in Eden
- Banished to Earth
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Bibliography
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"HINDU CREATION MYTH." The
Hindu Creation Myth. Web. 05 Oct. 2012. <http://www.read-legends-and-myths.com/hindu-creation-myth.html>.
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Leeming, David A. Creation Myths of the
World: An Encyclopedia.
Vol. 1. : ABC-CLIO, 2010. 52+. Print.
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McClure, Michael. "Creation
Myths." Myth & Knowing: An Introduction to World Mythology.
By Scott Leonard. New York: McGraw
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