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Mythological Cosmologies: Creation Myth, Underworld, Guinee, Genesis Creation Myth, Buddhist Cosmology, Axis Mundi, Hebrew Astronomy |
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| 出版日期 | 2010.09.15 |
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| 頁次 | 188 |
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| 出版者 | Books LLC |
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| 出版者網址 |
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| 出版地 | Memphis, TN, US [曼非斯, 田納西州, 美國] |
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| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
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| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
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| 摘要 | Chapters: Creation Myth, Underworld, Guinee, Genesis Creation Myth, Buddhist Cosmology, Axis Mundi, Hebrew Astronomy, Biblical Cosmology, Classical Planet, Dualistic Cosmology, Hindu Cosmology, Norse Cosmology, World Tree, Firmament, Mesoamerican World Tree, Thema Mundi, Irkalla, Empyrean, Mundane Egg. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 187. Not illustrated. Excerpt: A creation myth or creation story is a symbolic narrative of a culture, tradition or people that describes their earliest beginnings, how the world they know began and how they first came into it. They are stories expressing, usually through metaphor and imagery, how the world came to be and what humanitys place and role is in it. Creation myths develop in oral traditions, and are the most common form of myth, found throughout human culture. In the society in which it is told, a creation myth is usually regarded as conveying profound truths, although not necessarily in a historical or literal sense. They are commonly, although not always, considered cosmogonical myths--that is they describe the ordering of the cosmos from a state of chaos or amorphousness. They are also commonly, although not always, considered sacred accounts, and can be found in nearly all known religious traditions. Several features are found in all creation myths. They are all stories with a plot and characters who are either deities, human like figures or animals who often speak and transform easily. They are set in a dim and nonspecific past, what historian of religion Mircea Eliade termed in illo tempore. And all creation myths speak to deeply meaningful questions held by the society that shares them, revealing of their central worldview and the framework for the self-identity of the culture and individual in a universal context. Common motif...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7322 |
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| ISBN | 9781157115151 (pbk); 1157115152 (pbk) |
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| 點閱次數 | 840 |
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| 建檔日期 | 2011.01.17 |
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| 更新日期 | 2011.01.17 |
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