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  • Myths of Creation
    • 1 Thesis
    • 2 Definitions
    • 3 Exposition
    • 4 First Things: Cosmogony
    • 5 Time After Time
    • 6 From Creation To Catastrophe
    • 7 Order Out Of Chaos
    • 8 Traits, Tropes & Themes
    • 9 Macrocosm To Microcosm
    • 10 Astronomical: Theogony
    • 11 Geophysical: Geogony
    • 12 Ethnological: Anthropogony
    • 13 Cosmogonic Causal Chains
    • 14 As Above, So Below
    • 15 Foregone Ages Past
    • 16 Forthcoming Future Ages
    • 17 Second Thoughts
    • 18 But Who's Counting?
    • 19 From Myth To History
    • 20 Cycles Of Recurrence
  • The Jupiter Myth
MYTHS  OF  CREATION
15.   Foregone Ages Past
Also considerably common to most of 
these early cosmovisions
was the doctrine that 
the present sequence of cosmic eras
had been preceded by still others 
more or less obscured 
by the distant mists of time past. 

While the condition of the cosmos
prior to man’s arrival
seems to have been universally viewed 
as separate & distinct
from the Ages that ensued
since the beginning of the human cultural era,
a fair percentage of the traditions under consideration 
actually accounted for 
more beginnings & ends of the world
in their mythic histories
than their dedicated enumerations 
otherwise openly declared.

Differentiating any single culture’s
multiple myths regarding 
‘What came first’ in time, as such, 
mostly depends on determining 
which beginning of the world
was being referred to in each instance . . .     
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  • Home
  • Myths of Creation
    • 1 Thesis
    • 2 Definitions
    • 3 Exposition
    • 4 First Things: Cosmogony
    • 5 Time After Time
    • 6 From Creation To Catastrophe
    • 7 Order Out Of Chaos
    • 8 Traits, Tropes & Themes
    • 9 Macrocosm To Microcosm
    • 10 Astronomical: Theogony
    • 11 Geophysical: Geogony
    • 12 Ethnological: Anthropogony
    • 13 Cosmogonic Causal Chains
    • 14 As Above, So Below
    • 15 Foregone Ages Past
    • 16 Forthcoming Future Ages
    • 17 Second Thoughts
    • 18 But Who's Counting?
    • 19 From Myth To History
    • 20 Cycles Of Recurrence
  • The Jupiter Myth