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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
18.   But Who's Counting?
Above all other distinctions to be found,
the exact count of World Ages
preceding our own 
also differed from people to people 
& from tradition to tradition.

While Four periods or stages
figured most frequently
(the Golden, Silver, Bronze,
& Iron Ages, & the like),
quantities ranging from 
Three to Seven 
were also commonly attested.

In other places, however, 
these longer sequences 
were reduced to a more simple 
binary contrast: 
Before & After;
Then & Now;
the old Golden Age of Saturn
& the new present time of Jupiter. 

We also find, furthermore,
a number of discrepancies regarding
the specific sequence of cosmogonic destructions
out of which new creations unfolded. 

In addition,
the basic sum totals 
of the catastrophic events 
falling between the Ages
recalled by different peoples 
were also at variance — 
w/ some cultures citing 
only One or Two events
while others asserted Several 
regularly reoccurring episodes. 

— Disasters in which a great Flood
formed a more or less prominent part,
for example, more often than not accounted for
Three of the specific intervening 
‘Breaking Points’ between these Ages  
— although some cultures testified 
to more, or less . . . 
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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