He opened the myth book again and there ( along the margin next to Robert Graves' imaginative interpretation of the creation of the Dactyls from Rhea's fingertips ) were the names of four Munich bars and Meredith Wilder's address.

During a complex creation myth in which the cosmic cow licked Buri free from the ice, the sons of Buri's son, Bor, who were Odin, Vili and Vé, constructed the universe and put Midgard in it as a residence for the first human couple, Ask and Embla, whom they created from driftwood trees in Section 9.

* Creation myth, stories of the supernatural creation of the Earth

In the society in which it is told, a creation myth is usually regarded as conveying profound truths, metaphorically, symbolically and sometimes even in a historical or literal sense.

In Chinese creation myth | Daoist creation myth, " The Way gave birth to unity, Unity gave birth to duality, Duality gave birth to trinity, Trinity gave birth to the myriad creatures.

Defining the English collocation creation myth is semantically and culturally complex.

Mircea Eliade defined " myth " in terms of " creation ,"

Compare the following creation myth definitions from modern reference works:

* philosophical and theological elaboration of the primal myth of creation within a religious community.

In Maya religion, the dwarfism | dwarf was an embodiment of the Maya maize god | Maize God's Maya religion # Goblins and dwarfs | helpers at Maya maize god # Cosmological creation myth | creation

While in popular usage the term " myth " is often thought to refer to false or fanciful stories, creation myths are by definition those stories which a culture accepts as both a true and foundational account of their human identity.

Shamanism | Shaman's drum depicting Tungusic creation myth | Tungus cosmology, with the World Tree at center joining underworld, earth and heaven ( based on a 1924 drawing from the original drum )

The creation myth acts as a cornerstone for distinguishing primary reality from relative reality, the origin and nature of being from non-being.

The Debate between sheep and grain is an example of an even earlier form of ex nihilo creation myth from ancient Sumer.

In creation from chaos myth, initially there is nothing but a formless, shapeless expanse.

In one Māori mythology | Maori creation myth, the primal couple are Rangi and Papa, depicted holding each other in a tight embrace

In the second form of world parent myth, creation itself springs from dismembered parts of the body of the primeval being.

In connection with this interpretation, David and Margaret Leeming describe Genesis 1 as a " demythologized myth ", and John L. McKenzie asserts that the writer of Genesis 1 has " excised the mythical elements " from his creation story.

[...] The Christian myth gives such time a beginning in creation, a center in the Christ-event, and an end in the final consummation.

: The creation of an anti-environmental myth.

Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees: `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence ( of urbanization ) presented to his senses.

The approach to the depiction of the experience of creation may be analytic, as it is for Miss Litz, or spontaneous, as it is for Merle Marsicano.

To perpetuate wealth control led by small groups of individuals who played no role in its creation prevents those with real initiative from coming to the fore, and is basically anti-democratic.

This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.

We do not favor one field over another: we think that all inquiry, all scholarly and artistic creation, is good -- provided only that it contributes to a sense and understanding of the true ends of life, as all first-rate scholarship and artistic creation does.

We must realize with Prof. Charles Morris in his The Open Self that `` Man is the being that can continually remake himself, the artisan that is himself the material for his own creation ''.

`` Purely from the business man's standpoint and without regard to the lawyer's view '', commented a trade journal, `` the matter of patents in the automobile and accessory trade is developing some phases and results that challenge thought as to how far patents are to become weapons of warfare in business, instead of simple beneficient protection devices for encouraging inventive creation ''.

The first is a negative warning: there is no point in the creation of faculty committees and advisory boards with high-sounding titles but no real authority.

There is an ancient and venerable tradition in the church ( which derives, however, from the heritage of the Greeks rather than from the Bible ) that God is completely independent of his creation and so has no need of men for accomplishing his work in the world.

That community of all creation is, then, the ultimate object of our loyalty and the concrete norm of all moral judgment.

Racial discrimination is wrong, then, not because it goes against the grain of a faculty member trying to converse with a few realtors but because it goes against the grain of creation and against the will of the Creator.

the new birth is a new creation.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision but a new creation is of any account.

If then any man is in Christ, he is a new creature ( literally, `` He is a new creation ), the former things have passed away ; ;

Ashlag proposed that such a framework is the purpose of creation, and everything that happens is to raise humanity to the level of altruism, love for one another.

Art is a term that describes a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities, but here refers to the visual arts, which cover the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

Chirac's cabinet sold many public companies, renewing with the liberalisation initiated under Laurent Fabius's Socialist government ( 1984 – 86 – in particular with Fabius ' privatisation of the audiovisual sector, leading to the creation of Canal +), and abolished the solidarity tax on wealth ( ISF ), a symbolic tax on very high resources championed by Mitterrand's government.

He suggested ( together with the French in their own country ) the creation at a national level of a symbolic funeral and burial of an " Unknown Warrior ", proposing that the grave should in Britain include a national monument in the form of what is usually, but not in this particular case, a headstone.

This process " would have created new words and deployed old words in new contexts, further weakening the uncoupling of words from situations, from current occurrence -- even from fitness ," and thus allowing for the creation of symbolic language.

The Salk Institute ’ s open environment teeming with empty space is symbolic of an open environment for creation, the symmetry stands for scientific precision, and submerging crevasses allow warm, natural light to enter the buildings like the intellectual light that leads to discovery.

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The proponents of Amillennialism interpret the Millennium as being a symbolic period of time, consistent with the highly symbolic nature of the apocalyptic genre of the book of Revelation, sometimes indicating that the thousand years represent God's rule over his creation or the Church.

As a symbolic gesture to reflect its new moderation, at its April 1990 convention the party dropped its commitment to " socialist revolution " and described its goal as " social democracy ": the creation of a society in which " all people fairly enjoy the fruits of technological advancement and modern civilization and receive the benefits of social welfare.

According to this view, the sequence and duration of the creation " days " is representative or symbolic of the sequence and duration of events that scientists theorize to have happened.

On the 2nd floor are two early-1950s works by Rufino Tamayo: México de Hoy ( Mexico Today ) and Nacimiento de la Nacionalidad ( Birth of Nationality ), a symbolic depiction of the creation of the mestizo ( person of mixed indigenous and Spanish ancestry ) identity.

The Task Force called for ' a symbolic outdoor memorial ', a Memorial Museum, and for creation of Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism.

The hobby itself is a basic symbol of eternal innovative creation, thus symbolic of the spirit.

The earliest history of the creation of Longmen Grottoes is traced to the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei dynasty when he shifted his capital to Luoyang from Dàtóng ; Luoyang's symbolic value is borne by the fact that it served as the historic capital for 13 dynasties.

Other interpretations have seen the causeways as symbolic of multi-directional access to the site by scattered communities, the enclosures as funerary centres for excarnation or the construction of the site being a communal act of creation by a fragmented society.

# While there may also be a cultural connection between the southern deluge cycle and the cosmogonic scenario of the cosmic egg ( i. e., via the " thunder-egg ," " origin of ancestors hero from egg or gourd ," and " origin of agriculture and mankind from gourd " myths ), the fundamental linkage for all these typologies is the early Taoist, innovative perception of a shared symbolic intention that accounts for, and supports, a particular cosmogonic, metaphysical, and mystical vision of creation and life.

Divided into seven books, a number symbolic of the author's ultimate, apocalyptic intent, the Tragiques incorporates literary influence from classical sources, such as tragedy and satire, palpable in the first three books (" Les Misères ," " Les Princes " and " La Chambre Dorée " respectively ), before resorting to influence from genres like ecclesiastical history, martyrology and apocalypse in the creation of the remaining books ("," "" "" and "").

Arising out of the peripatetic philosophy as developed by Ibn Sina ( Avicenna ), Suhrawardi's illuminationist philosophy is critical of several of his positions and radically departs from him in the creation of a symbolic language ( mainly derived from ancient Iranian culture or Farhang-e Khosravani ) to give expression to his wisdom ( hikma ).

A theorem in the Flajolet – Sedgewick theory of symbolic combinatorics treats the enumeration problem of labelled and unlabelled combinatorial classes by means of the creation of symbolic operators that make it possible to translate equations involving combinatorial structures directly ( and automatically ) into equations in the generating functions of these structures.

Thus, " a symbolic form ... is not some ' intermediary ' in a process of ' communication ' that transmits the meaning intended by the author to the audience ; it is instead the result of a complex process of creation ( the poietic process ) that has to do with the form as well as the content of the work ; it is also the point of departure for a complex process of reception ( the esthesic process ) that reconstructs a ' message.

By pushing Ido, Couturat walked in Leibniz's footsteps ; Leibniz called for the creation a universal symbolic and conceptual language he named the characteristica universalis.

In a semiotics the neutral level of a sign is the " trace " left behind, the physical or material creation or remains of esthesic and poietic processes, levels, and analyses of symbolic forms.

Thus, " a symbolic form ... is not some ' intermediary ' in a process of ' communication ' that transmits the meaning intended by the author to the audience ; it is instead the result of a complex process of creation ( the poietic process ) that has to do with the form as well as the content of the work ; it is also the point of departure for a complex process of reception ( the esthesic process that reconstructs a ' message.

The science of value, or value science, is a creation of philosopher Robert S. Hartman, which attempts to formally elucidate value theory using both formal and symbolic logic.