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CREATION MYTHS

CREATION MYTHS. Think of your own version of creation. The idea is not to judge other cultures’ stories. www.webexhibits.org/colorart/michelangelo.html. Definition. Creation myth=creation story A symbolic narrative of a culture, tradition, or people.

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CREATION MYTHS

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  1. CREATION MYTHS Think of your own version of creation. The idea is not to judge other cultures’ stories. www.webexhibits.org/colorart/michelangelo.html

  2. Definition • Creation myth=creation story • A symbolic narrative of a culture, tradition, or people. • Describes their beginnings (how the world was made, how they got into the world) • www.aish.com/ci/a/48939082.html

  3. Oral traditions • Creation myths begin as stories told by elders macyapper.blogspot.com/2010/04/bang-bang-edit...

  4. “truths” • Convey profound “truths” of culture • Not meant in a historical or literal sense www.chl.kiev.ua/prince/dd/sotvore.htm www.chl.kiev.ua/prince/dd/sotvore.htm

  5. Sacred stories • Usually considered sacred • Found in every known religious tradition mesagrandeacademy.org/391736.ihtml

  6. commonalities • No matter what culture, tradition, religion… • Stories that have a plot • Characters who are deities, human-like gods, or animals who speak or transform • Set in a dim & nonspecific past (no dates) www.northernsun.com/n/s/6330.html

  7. ALL MYTHS MUST • Answer deeply meaningful questions of the society • Reveal their central worldview www.danshamptons.com

  8. THERE ARE FIVE BASIC TYPES (you need to know these) www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/concepts

  9. Ex nihilo • Creation through the thought, word, dream, or bodily secretion of a divine being www.evokeone.com/v4/display.php?id=1754

  10. Ex nihilo • THE MOST COMMON TYPE • A.K.A. “creation from nothing” • Genesis in the Bible in Judaism & Christianity • Koran’s Sura VII in Islam

  11. Earth diver • A diver (bird or amphibian) sent by a creator, plunges into sea through primordial ocean to collect sand or mud • Sand or mud becomes terrestrial world flickr.com/photos/shootingchris/1784360907/

  12. Earth diver • Supreme being sends an animal to find material from which he can build a habitable world • Beginning from the depths (from evil)

  13. Emergence • Progenitors pass through a series of worlds and metamorphoses • Eventually become or reach the present world www.crystalinks.com/australiacreation.html

  14. emergence • Humanity emergences from a different world into this one • Like giving birth • Women-centered philosophies (female deities play larger role)

  15. dismemberment • World is created by the dismemberment of the primordial being • (leg of a god becomes a person, etc.)

  16. Cosmic egg • A cosmic (divine) egg cracks or splits & brings form from chaos freakytrigger.co.uk/.../

  17. Chaos = nothingness (a void or vacuum) • Chaos usually symbolizes evil • Order (cosmos) symbolizes good • Chaos myths mean that creation is goodness in a world that was evil dlibrary.acu.edu.au/.../aejt_2/Casey.htm

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