Chapter 2: Creation Myths

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Chapter 2: Creation Myths 1 I. The Birth of Order a. Creation myths offer a cosmogony, meaning “the birth of order.” b. Cosmogony can be distinguished from cosmology, which studies the universe at large and throughout its existence, and which technically does not inquire directly into the source of its origins. II. Classifying Cosmogonies a. Usually the most important myth in a culture because it becomes the exemplary model for all other myths i.

• bias for the male against the female
• birth order
• birth of order
• west africa
• creation myth
• many years until the primeval ocean
• japan speak of creation
• creation myths
• god
• world
• earth