creation myths are mythmyth
myth is the visionary literature of the spirit, stories of a symbolic past, neither science nor metaphor. Some myths are etiological, serving as an explanation of some kind. The...s about the creation of the world. for example, tolkien in the silmarillion.
creation myths can be found in biblebible
the bible is the religious book of christian written in hebrew and koine greek.
, metamorphosesmetamorphoses
omnia mutantur, nihil interit (15.165)
metamorphoses (Greek/Latin for transformations) is a lengthy narrative poem (is it an epic poem?) written in Latin by the Roman poet ovid. It cov... book 1, hesiod's theogony, etc.
myths try to explain the world around us, resolving the fundamental paradoxparadox
paradox comes from Greek para (against) + doxa (opinion). For deleuze, it's the reversal of good sense and common sense.
le paradoxe est l'affirmation des deux sens a la fois – logic of s...es with imagination, intuition, and feelings. of course, early peoples were smart enough to make sharp observations about the sun, water, etc. there's also often an emphasis on thought as the initial force of creation.
- primeval abyss
- the original god
- brooding over the water
- cosmic egg
- the sacred word
- life from the corpse of a god
there is a deep connection between myths and rituals.