MYTHS  OF  CREATION

5.   Time After Time

"History is a cyclic poem 
     written by time 
         upon the memories of man."
                              ―P. B. Shelley 

Although these early 
narratives of cosmic origins
varied in composition & complexity 
according to the age & relative longevity  
of a resident culture’s
particular place & time,
a type of seemingly ‘cyclical’ 
or periodically recurring  
Cosmogony persisted in remaining
the leading & most commonly established
mythological theme
in known antiquity;  
— such that, in most peoples’ 
mythic histories, Creation was seen as
a perpetually ongoing process of development
unfolding thro multiple phases 
of more or less stable stasis,
now & then interspersed 
w/ intermittent intervals
of emergent novelty 
& widespread change.
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— Unlike today’s faith in world history’s 
slow & steady evolutionary progression
towards ever-greater degrees of 
technological progress & cultural sophistication, however,
the developmental cosmogonic process  
chronicled in traditional Myths of Creation
was never perceived as being uneventful 
or uniformly continuous whatsoever,
but was rather consistently portrayed as
proceeding by distinctly
discontinuous steps or stages
from the very start.

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