Adam may be thought of as a unique collective individual who embodies the complexity and potential that characterizes the human experience. Exploring the Hebrew wordplay in the Garden of Eden narrative reveals the complex relationship between humans and the earth or ground. The creation account in Genesis is a tightly organized story of the ordering of a chaotic cosmos, culminating on the seventh day with the Sabbath.
The second account of creation, which begins in Genesis , includes the familiar depiction of the planting of the garden of Eden and the forming of the first humans. The Hebrew Bible employs different names and titles for Yahweh that make use of conceptual imagery to communicate a variety of character traits and relationships.
The characters and events in the second creation account Gen have inspired imaginative and influential interpretation throughout the centuries. Hebrew is regarded as the spoken language of ancient Israel but is largely replaced by Aramaic in the Persian period. Of or related to the written word, especially that which is considered literature; literary criticism is a interpretative method that has been adapted to biblical analysis.
The addition of a title or subtitle in an ancient work; see especially the designation of certain types of psalms in the book of Psalms. The name of Israel's god, but with only the consonants of the name, as spelled in the Hebrew Bible. In antiquity, Jews stopped saying the name as a sign of reverence. Some scholars today use only the consonants to recognize the lost original pronunciation or to respect religious tradition.
Six Days of Creation and the Sabbath 1In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth,2the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face o View more.
This created a god, and it grew lonely and created other gods. Two called Izanagi and Izanami were the most remarkable and formed most of the Earth. For the ancient Sumerians, in the beginning, there was only the goddess Nammu. She gave birth to the universe, Anki, who then gave birth to the air god Enil. Enil split the universe in two, making An, the sky god, and Ki, the goddess of the Earth. Eventually, many gods came into existence and they were made to do hard labor until they rebelled.
Enil came up with a plan to create lesser beings to serve the gods. They elected Geshtu-e, who had great intelligence, to be sacrificed. Ninmah, the birth goddess, mixed his flesh and blood and all the gods spat on it. His body was made into clay which eventually made seven men and seven women.
In this myth, Eurynome was the goddess of all things and the only one in the beginning. She rose out of the chaos naked and divided the sea from the sky and danced on its waves. She caught hold of a north wind, rubbed it between her hands, and created the serpent Ophion.
When Eurynome danced, Ophion grew lustful, coiled up her limbs, and coupled with her. She became with child and birthed the sun, moon, stars, and the earth with its mountains and rivers. They made their home on Mount Olympus, but when Ophion taunted her by saying he created the universe, she bruised his head with her heel and kicked him down to the lower places of the Earth. In it, the beginning was filled with chaotic water that divided into fresh water, known as the god Apsu, and salt water, known as the goddess Tiamat.
These two gods give birth to other gods. These other gods begin to cause trouble and upset Apsu so much he wanted to kill them, which created a conflict between him and Tiamat. From the conflict, a great warrior named Marduk fired an arrow at Tiamat and splits her into two which is said to have created the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; from her corpse, the heavens and the earth were created.
A Hawaiian creation account very similar to Rangi and Papa, the Kumulipo is a chant which told of how the earth first became hot, and land came from the slime of the sea. A dark cavern, a male, and a moonless night, a female, gave birth to the life of the sea. Afterward, flying creatures were born and soon after that, the creatures of the land.
The Jains have a much different take on the creation of the universe than many cultures in that it never happened. Essentially, within Jainism, nothing in this world is ever created or destroyed. They merely change forms. The universe has always existed and will always exist. Time for the Jains is cyclical. Perhaps one of the most famous creation stories, in the Jewish Torah and Christian Bible, the Book of Genesis depicts that in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Creation stories often form the basis for many religions around the world; many are well known even among those who do not practice the religion. Others are obscure and unusual, utilizing strong storytelling techniques to explain complex moral and spiritual quandaries. If they allow one belief system to be taught, surely they must also teach others?
To help out with this dilemma, LiveScience presents a list of those Creation Myths that helped define civilizations both past and present Genesis, the first book of the Jewish Torah and the Christian Bible, contains two origin stories, both of which are accepted as the creation of the world by today's Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths.
In the first, God says, "Let there be light," and light appears. In six days, he creates the sky, the land, plants, the sun and moon, animals, and all creatures, including humans. To all he says, "Be fruitful and multiply," which they do. On the seventh day God rests, contemplates his handiwork, and gives himself a good evaluation. In the second story, God creates the first man, Adam, from the earth.
God anesthetizes Adam and makes one of his ribs into the first woman, Eve. A talking serpent persuades her to eat the forbidden fruit, and she convinces Adam to do likewise. When God finds out, he drives them from the garden and makes man mortal. They should have stuck with apricots! The early Greek poets posited various cosmogonies. The best-preserved is Hesiod's Theogony. In this hymn, out of the primordial chaos came the earliest divinities, including Gaia mother earth.
Gaia created Uranus, the sky, to cover herself. They spawned a bizarre menagerie of gods and monsters, including the Hecatonchires, monsters with 50 heads and a hundred hands, and the Cyclopes, the "wheel-eyed," later forgers of Zeus's thunderbolts.
Next came the gods known as the Titans, 6 sons and 6 daughters. Uranus, despising his monstrous children, imprisoned them in Tartarus, the earth's bowels. Enraged, Gaia made an enormous sickle and gave it to her youngest son, Cronus, with instructions. When next Uranus appeared to copulate with Gaia, Cronus sprang out and hacked off his father's genitals! Where Uranus's blood and naughty bits fell, there sprang forth more monsters, the Giants and Furies. From the sea foam churned up by the the holy testicles came the goddess Aphrodite.
Later, Cronus fathered the next generation of gods, Zeus and the Olympians. And, boy, were they dysfunctional! The Hindu cosmology contains many myths of creation, and the principal players have risen and fallen in importance over the centuries. The earliest Vedic text, the Rig Veda, tells of a gigantic being, Purusha, possessing a thousand heads, eyes, and feet. He enveloped the earth, extending beyond it by the space of ten fingers. When the gods sacrificed Purusha, his body produced clarified butter, which engendered the birds and animals.
His body parts transformed into the world's elements, and the gods Agni, Vayu, and Indra.
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