Earth-Diver: Creation of the Mythopoeic Male.
A muddy sea that covered the entire earth was created. From this ocean grew a green shoot. It grew and grew until it reached the clouds and there it was tranformed into a god. Soon this god grew lonely and it began to create other gods.
Earth,Diver: Creation of the Mythopoeic Male ALAN DUNDES University of Kansas EW anthropologists are satisfied with the present state of scholarship with respect to primitive mythology.
A creation myth (or creation story) is a cultural, religious or traditional myth which describes the earliest beginnings of the present world. Creation myths are the most common form of myth, usually developing first in oral traditions, and are found throughout human culture.
Myth: There are sharks in the ocean and they eat divers. Don't try to deny it — I saw Jaws and Open Water. Truth: Don't tell Hollywood, but the factual record on shark vs. diver is pretty dull: Sharks just don't make a habit of munching on divers. In fact, except in certain conditions and environments, they don't even stick around when divers get in the water.
This creation myth falls into the Earth-Diver category. In this type of myth, a being - sometimes divine, often an animal - dives into the water to bring up small amounts of soil. From this soil, the earth is formed. In the Beginning. Creation Stories from Around the World. by Virginia Hamilton Inuit. Time was, there were no people on earth.
How the World Was Made, a Cherokee Legend, is excerpted from the book Myths and Legends of the Great Plains, by Katharine Berry Judson, 1913. Menu.. The earth is a great floating island in a sea of water. At each of the four corners there is a cord hanging down from the sky. The sky is of solid rock.
A Dictionary of Creation Myths. David Adams. become began beginning birds birth body born brother brought called chaos child clay contained cosmic covered Coyote created creation myth creation story creator culture darkness daughter death decided dream earth earth-diver east emergence everything ex nihilo existence eyes father female figure.