The Creation of Man and Things: Chinese Creation Myths

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-41
Author(s):  
Zhaoyuan Tian ◽  
Shuxian Ye ◽  
Hang Qian
Keyword(s):  
Creation Myths ◽  
The Creation

Modern Prose and Ancient Inhibitions

1980 ◽  
Vol 162 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-37
Author(s):  
J. Mitchell Morse
Keyword(s):  
Human Intelligence ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Creation Myths ◽  
The Creation

Both amateurs and professionals write poor prose; in fact, students and professionals alike are afflicted with a neurotic need to avoid clarity and precision of thought. In the creation myths of all civilized countries, the exercise of human intelligence is displeasing to the gods; the beginning of civilization - which is necessarily at odds with nature - is always associated with sin. The universal difficulty in articulating feeling precedes consciousness because we are born into helpless dependence on our parents, who in order for us to survive and be fit for human society must often thwart our infantile inclinations. We cry out against their efforts to tame us and civilize us. Writing well which is a way of creating our personal uniqueness, is always an act of subconscious rebellion against society. We tend to discourage such rebellion in others and suppress it in our-selves. We prefer to think in cliches, and to demonstrate, through our bad grammar, bad logic, and general sloppiness of diction, that we are socially harmless because intellectually null. The ability to write seems to have declined through a voluntary careless acceptance of slack imprecision, so that our words and processes of thought become confused. A postliterate culture is not inconceivable; we are willmg our literacy gradually away through a voluntary loss of high literary skill The disappearance of literacy may well bring about the wreck of civilization. We must read attentively, and we must teach our students to read. We must rediscover the value of technique. We must take courage from the few brilliant writers among us and develop new literary modes.

2. Maya genesis

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-22
Author(s):  
Matthew Restall ◽  
Amara Solari
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Creation Myths ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Maya Civilization ◽  
Ruling Elites ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
The Creation

By the first millennium bce, Maya civilization was manifesting itself in art, architecture, agriculture, and social structure. “Maya Genesis” looks at the birth of this civilization. The manuscript known as the Popul Vuh gives a detailed version of Maya creation, telling the stories of two mythical Hero Twins, bookended by tales of the creation of the earth and humans. Impressive structures such as the sites at Palenque linked creation myths and divinity to the visions and ambitions of ruling elites. New architectural and agricultural developments such as the “nixtamalization” of corn helped in the formation of denser communities and the emergence of a hierarchical and multilayered social organization.

Rethinking the garret

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Cook
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Concert Music ◽  
Creation Myths ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Argument Proceeds

This second chapter of Music as Creative Practice develops an approach to musical imagination in opposition to the traditional creation myths according to which composers ‘hear’ music in their heads and simply write it down. Drawing an analogy with the creation of perfumes, it shows how imagining music involves representing it in terms of notational and other objects that enable it to be purposefully manipulated in such a way as to bring new sound conceptions into existence. Composition involves a rich ecology in which creators interact with sound images that talk back to them, resulting in an imaginative analogue to the social interaction of real-time musical creativity. The argument proceeds through case studies that range from popular songwriting to concert music, and from sixteenth-century polyphony through Beethoven to contemporary classical composition. The aim is to penetrate through analysis of style to the modes of creative thinking that underlie them.

scholarly journals Die skeppingsmites as simbole van psigiese prosesse

1986 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. P. Naudé
Keyword(s):  
Growth Process ◽  
Jungian Psychology ◽  
The Self ◽  
Collective Unconscious ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Creation Myths ◽  
Individuation Process ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

Creation myths as symbols of psychic processes The thesis which has been taken from the Jungian psychology and which is discussed in this article, is the following: Creation myths represent unconscious and preconscious psychic processes which constitute the origin of the development of the human being's consciousness of the world. This implies that the creation myths don't describe the origin of the cosmos. They refer to psychic processes which accompany the growth of human consciousness out of the unconscious. This growth process is discussed in terms of the Jungian concepts of the collective unconscious, archetypes, consciousness and ego, the personal unconscious and complexes, the persona and the shadow, the self and the individuation process.

Fiat Lux!

2021 ◽  
pp. 64-65
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Wilk
Keyword(s):  
Creation Myths ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Book Of Genesis

The Book of Genesis famously opens with God ordering “Let there be Light!” as the first step in the Creation. This stands in contrast to most of the creation myths of other cultures, which do not begin with the creation of light. What is the significance of this? Is it meant to be taken literally (so that God can see what He is doing and Creation is visible to all), or metaphorically (that is, is light meant to stand for Knowledge, Wisdom, or Understanding)? Do any other cultures also start things off with the creation of light?

Zulu Creation Myths by Credo Mutwa – Ancient Tradition or Mutwa’s Invention?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Podolecka
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Creation Myths ◽  
Science Centre ◽  
National Science ◽  
The Creation

Abstract Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa (1921–2020) was one the most famous and controversial sangomas in South Africa. He is the first sangoma who published books about sangomas’ vocation and work, and revealed his version of Zulu myths. This paper first establishes if Mutwa’s tales can be considered myths, then if those stories are cohesive with versions known to academics and contemporary sangomas. The aim of this article is to analyse the creation myths that Mutwa presents, establish if they are original Zulu myths or his creations, and find international mythological motifs that could have influenced him. Mutwa’s myths are compared with myths collected by other researchers. Mutwa’s opinions, gained during a 2013 field visit to his home in Kuruman, South Africa, are also presented. The field studies among contemporary sangomas were financed by the Polish National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki), Poland, project no. 2017/25/N/HS1/02500.

Genesis 2: 1–3 - Creation and Sabbath

1988 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard N. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Near Eastern ◽  
Creation Myths ◽  
The People ◽  
Priestly Writer ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Temple

In Gen 2:1-3 the Priestly writer has emphasised the sabbath of God at the end of the creation account. In exile, when Israel had been severed from land and temple, pastoral consideration was needed in the reshaping of the traditions. The temple no longer stood as a symbol of the sovereignty of Israel's God. In the creation account, the construction of the heavenly sanctuary, which usually concludes ancient Near Eastern creation myths, has been replaced by the motif of the divine rest. The Priestly writer connects God's sabbath rest at creation with the institutions of tabernacle and human sabbath observance and gives the people a means whereby the sovereignty of their God can be proclaimed

6. Myth and psychology

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Segal
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Carl Jung ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Creation Myths ◽  
The Creation

‘Myth and psychology’ explains how, in psychology, the theories of Sigmund Freud and of Carl Jung have almost monopolized the study of myth. They both parallel myths to dreams. Freud analyzes myths throughout his writings, but his main discussion is of Oedipus. For Freud, myth functions through its meaning: myth vents Oedipal desires by presenting a story in which, symbolically, they are enacted. Like Freudians, Jungians at once analyze all kinds of myths, not just hero myths, and interpret other kinds heroically. Creation myths, for example, symbolize the creation of consciousness out of the unconscious. For Freud, heroism involves relations with parents and instincts. For Jung, heroism involves, in addition, relations with the unconscious.

A religious ritual among the Walbiri people of Central Australia

1966 ◽  
Vol 251 (772) ◽  
pp. 499-500
Keyword(s):  
Australian Aborigines ◽  
Religious Ritual ◽  
Creation Myths ◽  
Central Australia ◽  
The Creation

The Australian aborigines hold regular ceremonies in which they mime incidents from the creation myths. These are acts of worship and celebration for those who participate. They also may be the means of acquainting newly initiated boys with episodes of the myths which are kept secret from children as they are from men of other totemic groups and all women.

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