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Creation stories : landscapes and the human imagination /
Drawing from a vast array of creation myths--Babylonian, Greek, Aztec, Maya, Inca, Chinese, Hindu, Navajo, Polynesian, African, Norse, Inuit, and more--this short, illustrated book uncovers both the similarities and differences in our attempts to explain the universe. Anthony Aveni, an award-winning...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: creation landscapes
- Part one: Mountains
- Power politics on Mount Olympus
- How China got its tilted landscape
- The four sides of the Navajo universe
- Five Aztec creations
- Creation battles in the Andean Highlands
- Salt of the earth: amazonian beginnings
- Part two: Waterways
- Enuma Elish: controlling the waters
- The Nile from benben to pyramid
- The Mande and the river Niger
- Tlingit origins
- Part three: Caves
- A dreamtime creation from southwest Australia
- An underworld battle and the Maya dawn of life
- Inca ancestors emerge
- Part four: Islands
- A creation story from Polynesia
- How Maui dredged up the hawaiian islands
- Dobu islanders and palolo worms
- How our islands were made: a Shinto story
- Haudenosaunee island making
- Diving in the mud: a Cherokee creation story
- Part five: Extremes
- Norse creation: murder on ice
- Arctic Inuit creation
- Tierra del Fuego: where the seas clash
- Epilogue: from the ancient Greeks to the big bang.