MYTHS OF CREATION
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13. Cosmogonic Causal Chains Of Events
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An almost incalculable number of myths and mythological images found worldwide directly concerned themselves with these principal cosmogonic traits, tropes and themes.
Not only are these most commonplace motifs also likely to be the oldest, all of the major cosmogonic archetypes we find in later religions, old and new, appear to be more or less derived from this very same selection too. Furthermore, in many of the larger, more developed mythopoeic communities of the Bronze Age, several of these basic components were commonly interwoven in much longer & more complex mythic histories, where we find them arranged in comparably distinct causal chains of events presented in meaningful chronological order — progressively detailing those recurrent cycles of Creations and Destructions that once troubled the progression of human history and the steady course of the Earth the same as the movements of the stars. |