"We live in a warehouse of casts that have lost their molds. In the beginning was the mold"(Calasso 175)
Went over the reading and important dates schedule. Read 2 chapters every week.
We presented the creation myths. Plenty of earth diver and native american myths.
All creation myths can be channeled into a certain myths.
Myth of creation and origin:
Cosmogenic myth(creation of everything)
1) Exnihilo- from nothing, creation story from beginning of the Bible.
2) Thought- creation by thought.
3) Earth diver motive- God sends amphibians/himself to being up particles of earth from which earth is created.
4) Creation by separation
a. Heaven and earth
b. Separation of things out and in(chaos)
c. Cutting into a cosmogenic egg
5) Creation of dismemberment of primordial being
(not sure if I wrote down the right thing for b.)
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