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68 relations: Ainu creation myth, Ainulindalë, Ajativada, Ancient Egyptian creation myths, Anishinaabe, Archetype, Areop-Enap, Atom, Âu Cơ, Babylonian religion, Barton Cylinder, Book of Job, Buddhist cosmology, Chaos (cosmogony), Cheonjiwang Bonpuri, Chinese creation myths, Coatlicue, Cosmogony, Cosmos, Creation myth, Debate between sheep and grain, Diné Bahaneʼ, Enûma Eliš, Fon creation myth, Genesis creation narrative, Hindu views on evolution, History, Hopi mythology, Intelligent Design: Message from the Designers, J. R. R. Tolkien, Jainism and non-creationism, Japanese creation myth, Korean mythology, Kumulipo, Kuterastan, Legend of Trentren Vilu and Caicai Vilu, Leviathan, Literature, Mandé creation myth, Mashya and Mashyana, Mīmāṃsā, Mbombo, Mongol mythology, Myth, Mytheme, Mythopoeia, Nüwa, Ngai, Nyaya, Oral tradition, ..., Pangu, Rangi and Papa, Raven Tales, Religious views on truth, Samkhya, Serer creation myth, Sumerian creation myth, Sureq Galigo, The Greek Myths, The Silmarillion, Tungusic creation myth, Unkulunkulu, Vaisheshika, Väinämöinen, Völuspá, Viracocha, Xolas, Yoga. Expand index (18 more) »
Ainu creation myth
The Ainu creation myths are the traditional creation accounts of the Ainu peoples of Japan.
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Ainulindalë
Ainulindalë ("Music of the Ainur") is the creation account in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, published as the first part of the posthumously published The Silmarillion (1977).
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Ajativada
Ajātivāda is the fundamental philosophical doctrine of the Advaita Vedanta philosopher Gaudapada.
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Ancient Egyptian creation myths
Ancient Egyptian creation myths are the ancient Egyptian accounts of the creation of the world.
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Anishinaabe
Anishinaabe (or Anishinabe, plural: Anishinaabeg) is the autonym for a group of culturally related indigenous peoples in Canada and the United States that are the Odawa, Ojibwe (including Mississaugas), Potawatomi, Oji-Cree, and Algonquin peoples.
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Archetype
The concept of an archetype appears in areas relating to behavior, modern psychological theory, and literary analysis.
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Areop-Enap
Areop-Enap (old spider) played a major part in the creation of the world in the indigenous myths of the people of Nauru.
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Atom
An atom is the smallest constituent unit of ordinary matter that has the properties of a chemical element.
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Âu Cơ
Âu Cơ was, according to the creation myth of the Vietnamese people, an immortal mountain fairy who married Lạc Long Quân, and bore an egg sac that hatched a hundred children known collectively as Bách Việt, ancestors to the Vietnamese people.
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Babylonian religion
Babylonian religion is the religious practice of Babylonia.
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Barton Cylinder
The Barton Cylinder is a Sumerian creation myth, written on a clay cylinder in the mid to late 3rd millennium BC, which is now in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
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Book of Job
The Book of Job (Hebrew: אִיוֹב Iyov) is a book in the Ketuvim ("Writings") section of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), and the first poetic book in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.
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Buddhist cosmology
Buddhist cosmology is the description of the shape and evolution of the Universe according to the Buddhist scriptures and commentaries.
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Chaos (cosmogony)
Chaos (Greek χάος, khaos) refers to the void state preceding the creation of the universe or cosmos in the Greek creation myths, or to the initial "gap" created by the original separation of heaven and earth.
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Cheonjiwang Bonpuri
The Cheonjiwang Bonpuri (천지왕 본풀이 "Chronicles of Cheonjiwang") is a Korean creation myth, traditionally retold by shamans on the Jejudo.
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Chinese creation myths
Chinese creation myths are symbolic narratives about the origins of the universe, earth, and life.
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Coatlicue
Coatlicue (cōātl īcue,, “skirt of snakes”), also known as Teteoh innan (tēteoh īnnān,, “mother of the gods”), is the Aztec goddess who gave birth to the moon, stars, and Huitzilopochtli, the god of the sun and war.
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Cosmogony
Cosmogony is any model concerning the origin of either the cosmos or universe.
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Cosmos
The cosmos is the universe.
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Creation myth
A creation myth (or cosmogonic myth) is a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it.
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Debate between sheep and grain
The "Debate between sheep and grain" or "Myth of cattle and grain" is a Sumerian creation myth, written on clay tablets in the mid to late 3rd millennium BCE.
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Diné Bahaneʼ
("Story of the People"), the Navajo creation myth, describes the prehistoric emergence of the Navajo, and centers on the area known as the Dinétah, the traditional homeland of the Navajo.
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Enûma Eliš
The (Akkadian Cuneiform:, also spelled "Enuma Elish"), is the Babylonian creation myth (named after its opening words).
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Fon creation myth
The Fon creation myth is the traditional creation story of the Fon peoples of West Africa.
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Genesis creation narrative
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth of both Judaism and Christianity.
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Hindu views on evolution
Hinduism includes a range of viewpoints about the origin of life, creationism and evolution.
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History
History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.
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Hopi mythology
The Hopi maintain a complex religious and mythological tradition stretching back over centuries.
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Intelligent Design: Message from the Designers
Intelligent Design: Message from the Designers is a book written by Claude Vorilhon (Rael), the founder of the Raelian movement.
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J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, (Tolkien pronounced his surname, see his phonetic transcription published on the illustration in The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One. Christopher Tolkien. London: Unwin Hyman, 1988. (The History of Middle-earth; 6). In General American the surname is also pronounced. This pronunciation no doubt arose by analogy with such words as toll and polka, or because speakers of General American realise as, while often hearing British as; thus or General American become the closest possible approximation to the Received Pronunciation for many American speakers. Wells, John. 1990. Longman pronunciation dictionary. Harlow: Longman, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.
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Jainism and non-creationism
Jainism does not support belief in a creator deity.
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Japanese creation myth
In Japanese mythology, the, is the story that describes the legendary birth of the celestial and earthly world, the birth of the first gods and the birth of the Japanese archipelago.
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Korean mythology
Korean mythology refers to stories passed down by word of mouth over thousands of years on the Korean Peninsula.
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Kumulipo
In the Hawaiian religion, the Kumulipo is an 18th-century chant in the Hawaiian language telling a creation story.
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Kuterastan
Kuterastan is the creator in a creation myth of the Kiowa Apache from the southern plains of North America.
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Legend of Trentren Vilu and Caicai Vilu
The legend of Trentren Vilu and Caicai Vilu is the "legend of the geography and origin of the Chiloean archipelago, and mountains of southern Chile", which was caused by a fierce battle between two mythical snakes, Trentren Vilu (trentren.
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Leviathan
Leviathan is a sea monster referenced in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Job, Psalms, the Book of Isaiah, and the Book of Amos.
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Literature
Literature, most generically, is any body of written works.
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Mandé creation myth
The Mandé creation myth is the traditional creation myth of the Mandé peoples of southern Mali.
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Mashya and Mashyana
According to the Zoroastrian cosmogony, Mashya and Mashyana were the first man and woman whose procreation gave rise to the human race.
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Mīmāṃsā
Mimansa (purv mi mansa) is a Sanskrit word that means "reflection" or "critical investigation".
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Mbombo
Mbombo, also called Bumba, is the creator god in the religion and mythology of the Kuba people of Central Africa in the area that is now known as Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Mongol mythology
The Mongol mythology is the traditional religion of the Mongols.
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Myth
Myth is a folklore genre consisting of narratives that play a fundamental role in society, such as foundational tales.
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Mytheme
In structuralism-influenced studies of mythology, a mytheme is a fundamental generic unit of narrative structure (typically involving a relationship between a character, an event, and a theme) from which myths are thought to be constructed — a minimal unit that is always found shared with other, related mythemes and reassembled in various ways ("bundled") or linked in more complicated relationships.
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Mythopoeia
Mythopoeia (also mythopoesis, after Hellenistic Greek μυθοποιία, μυθοποίησις "myth-making") is a narrative genre in modern literature and film where a fictional or artificial mythology is created by the writer of prose or other fiction.
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Nüwa
Nüwa or Nügua is the mother goddess of Chinese mythology, the sister and wife of Fuxi, the emperor-god.
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Ngai
Ngai (Engai, Enkai, Mweai, Mwiai) is the Supreme God in the religions of the Kamba and Kikuyu of Kenya.
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Nyaya
(Sanskrit: न्याय, ny-āyá), literally means "rules", "method" or "judgment".
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Oral tradition
Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication where in knowledge, art, ideas and cultural material is received, preserved and transmitted orally from one generation to another.
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Pangu
Pangu is the first living being and the creator of all in some versions of Chinese mythology.
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Rangi and Papa
In Māori mythology the primal couple Rangi and Papa (or Ranginui and Papatūānuku) appear in a creation myth explaining the origin of the world (though there are many different versions).
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Raven Tales
Raven Tales are the traditional people and animals creation stories of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast but are also found among Athabaskan-speaking peoples and others.
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Religious views on truth
Religious views on truth vary from religion and cultures around the world.
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Samkhya
Samkhya or Sankhya (सांख्य, IAST) is one of the six āstika schools of Hindu philosophy.
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Serer creation myth
The Serer creation myth is the traditional creation myth of the Serer people of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania.
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Sumerian creation myth
The earliest record of a Sumerian creation myth, called The Eridu Genesis by historian Thorkild Jacobsen, is found on a single fragmentary tablet excavated in Nippur.
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Sureq Galigo
Sureq Galigo or La Galigo is an epic creation myth of the Bugis from South Sulawesi, written down in manuscript form between the 18th and 20th century in the Indonesian language Bugis, based on an earlier oral tradition.
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The Greek Myths
The Greek Myths (1955) is a mythography, a compendium of Greek mythology, with comments and analyses, by the poet and writer Robert Graves, normally published in two volumes, though there are abridged editions that present the myths only.
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The Silmarillion
The Silmarillion (pronounced: /sɪlmaˈrɪljɔn/) is a collection of mythopoeic works by English writer J. R. R. Tolkien, edited and published posthumously by his son, Christopher Tolkien, in 1977, with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay.
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Tungusic creation myth
The Tungusic creation myths are traditional stories of the creation of the world belonging to the Tungusic peoples of Siberia.
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Unkulunkulu
Unkulunkulu (/uɲɠulun'ɠulu/) (isiZulu: the very great/high one) is the Supreme Creator in the language of the Zulu people.
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Vaisheshika
Vaisheshika or (वैशेषिक) is one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy (Vedic systems) from ancient India.
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Väinämöinen
Väinämöinen is a demigod, hero and the central character in Finnish folklore and the main character in the national epic Kalevala.
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Völuspá
Völuspá (Old Norse Vǫluspá or Vǫluspǫ́, Prophecy of the Völva (Seeress); reconstructed Old Norse, Modern Icelandic) is the first and best known poem of the Poetic Edda.
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Viracocha
Viracocha is the great creator deity in the pre-Inca and Inca mythology in the Andes region of South America.
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Xolas
Xolas is the supreme deity of the Kawésqar of Tierra del Fuego.
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Yoga
Yoga (Sanskrit, योगः) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_creation_myths
