Alpha; the myths of creation
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TextSeries: (Patterns of myth: myth and experience)New York George Braziller c1963Description: xxii, 264p.; ill.; appendices; bibliog.; bibliog. refs.; indexContent type: - text
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1 Emergence myths. 2 World-parent myths. 3 Creation from chaos and from the cosmic egg. 4 Creation from nothing. 5 Earth-diver myths. 6 Conclusion. Appendix 1 Creation and sacrifice. Appendix 2 The ancestors as creators
'After a discussion of the nature of religion, mythic and scientific modes of thinking, and thegeneral characher of creation myths, Professor Charles H. Long, drawing on his background as a historian of religion, explores five major types of creation myths....each type is brilliantly interpreted within the context of its inherent religious structures.'
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