RELI 216 Lecture Notes - Culture Hero, Alan Dundes, Sky Deity
18 Feb 2013
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Cosmogony questions from lecture: descibe the characteristics of the creator deity in myths related to creation from. Powerful symbolism of a deity who creates from noting is symbolic tour de force against cultural histories as the basis for a new founding and ordering of the world and the human community. Power for the deity in myths establishes the cosmos as unrelated to and discontinuous from, all other structures before the statement of creation. Deity appears out of nothingness, autonomous, self-created, no family, The deliberate process of creation = willful volition and the fact that creation is brought forth as a form of perfection from a supreme being. Creation deity in myths = often symbolized by the sky or sky deities (s. Many myths involving creation from chaos = symbolism of a cosmic egg/ ovoid shape out of which creation or the first created being emerges.
