Ancient stories of creation. In contrast to the biblical accounts of creation, the old story about the creation of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Syria-Palestine, do more than try to explain how the physical world came into existence. Often the creation myths raise a particular god, of a particular shrine, to the supremacy of the other gods in order to validate the prestige of that deity, in that sanctuary or city in which this was located . The creation myths. THE MYTH OF THE EGYPTIANS: tends to assert that primordial mound or an "island of creation" arose from a primeval ocean and that a specific god created all things on this site. In Memphis, Ptah was in Hermopolis, was thoth, in Heliopolis, was re atum. Here it was said that a sacred stone marked the spot where re-atum, in the form of a bird bennu down and start the creative process. A creation myth often focuses on geographic features and other unique laments shrine associated with myth. An Egyptian myth, for example, pays special attention to the Nile Sometimes the creation myths tell of battles between gods and Mostros primitive watery chaos, meaning through which one or more deities reach supremacy sometimes occurs when creating a god defeats a primitive showed his body divided into two parts, which makes heaven and earth, or land and water, etc.. THE MYTH OF CREATION UNDER BABYLONIANS. Enuma Elish describes the defeat of the mother goddess and marine showed by the god Tiamat Maeduk. After a terrible battle in which Marduk kills him to Tiamar, cut her body in half like a fish to dry it and use it to form the celestial vault. This supposedly sets victory Maeduk supremacy among the gods. The creation myths of the Greeks are similar after the initial chaos, the first deities Gaia (earth goddess) and Uranus (sky god) came after a series of gods came afterwards similar to Mostros (as timesheets, typhon and the Titans) were born to them, but Zeus (son of cronos) overcomes these beings and sets the current world order. Some myths portray humans as slaves of the gods, whose main function is to feed their sacrifices.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:28:04 +0000
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