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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"creation myth"”.
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Land, People, Space, and Place: Constructing a Decolonized Reparative Understanding of the Biblical Creation Myth Through Dialogue Between the Hebrew Bible and Haudenosaunee Creation Stories
… the settlers’ claims about the biblical creation myths (Gen 1:1-2:4a and Gen 2:4b-3:24) and to construct a decolonized, reparative understanding of the biblical cosmogony through a conversation between it and its Indigenous counterpart. Therefore, using an author-established, …
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Redemption and the Other: The Supernatural Narrator and the Intertextual (Sub)version of the Miltonic Command
In literary discourse from the Genesis creation myth through John Milton's Paradise Lost and beyond, Eve has been patriarchally considered to be the bringer of Sin and Death into the world. In Paradise Lost Eve is depicted as deceiving Adam into the Fall by way of the Serpent. Paradise Lost creates …
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The Lantern and the Sword
<p>A creation myth of a new universe where brother deities of light and darkness battle for dominance. Light creates a Lantern to illuminate all reality and Darkness creates a Sword to help control the extent of the light. The god of light then creates a champion to lead his forces against his dark …
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The Story of How the World Began: An Anthropological Analysis of Creation Mythology
This paper addresses the theme of the creation myth in a selection of cultural groups. Cultures around the world have developed their own mythologies each with their own pantheon of gods, goddesses, and heroes. They also have been spreading throughout the world since the beginning of humankind. As …
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Vanished in Silver
… from moments in history, legend, folklore, and mythology. The story is told through the 1st person narration of Lyra Kazan, a Thessalian witch more than 2,500 years old who runs an apothecary in Long Beach, California. The seemingly mundane setting falls away to reveal physics-bending, …
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The social construction of female criminality : women, mental health, and the criminal justice system
… this as a result of the church interpreting the creation myth and painting women in a picture of natural evil, a temptation, but a necessary evil . This interpretation has been re-constructed in a capitalist society because in order to function, a capitalist society needs women in the home to …
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Are You Known To Us? Inscribing a Gendered Body Through Play in the Public Built Environment
… practice of skateboarding. Although a popular creation myth presents skateboarding as a subversive, socially resourceful activity born from the natural landscape (the riding of waves by surfers), it has since become consumed within a masculine commercial culture. It is used as an exemplar, …
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The Tongan traditional history Tala-E-Fonua : a vernacular ecology-centred historico-cultural concept
… complementary and opposed connections between myths and history are examined in synchronic and diachronic terms within a social context. The early traditional-mythological history, part two, delves into the issue of origin, dealing with the mythical past historically. In chapter two, the Tongan …
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The Tongan traditional history Tala-E-Fonua : a vernacular ecology-centred historico-cultural concept
… complementary and opposed connections between myths and history are examined in synchronic and diachronic terms within a social context. The early traditional-mythological history, part two, delves into the issue of origin, dealing with the mythical past historically. In chapter two, the Tongan …
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Something Wicked: Witches and Rhetorics of Resistance
… eradication of witchcraft and magic is the creation myth of modernity; it has and continues to be the foil for standards of propriety, righteousness, civility, and rationality. The witch has picked up many meanings on her/their journeys throughout historical space and time. Some of the …