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creation myth

symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it

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Subclass of: myth of origins, literary genre
Said to be the same as: cosmogonical myth, Q31081156
Main subject: origin
described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Pauly–Wissowa
facet of: origin of life, creation, cosmogony
has list: list of creation myths
partially coincident with: origin of language
topic's main category: Category:Creation myths

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Subject of

The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Enûma Eliš
Wessobrunn Prayer
On the Origin of the World
Wie lieblich ist der Maien
Wahnsinn und Verbrechen
Die neue Lehre
Wunder der Schöpfung im Kleinen
Historia de la leche
Weltschöpfung (Pauly-Wissowa)
Pelasgian creation myth
Une Créature de Dieu

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Authority files

Library of Congress ↗GND ↗BnF ↗Encyclopædia Britannica ↗

God the father - Arise

Pipe-BHM Ethno 1974.403.2

Talisman-E 10943

Die Geometrie der Schöpfung

Days of Creation - Third

Cult Relief of Mithras Slaying the Bull (Tauroctony), Yale University Art Gallery, inv. 1935.98

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