MYTHS OF CREATION
5. Time After Time
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"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. |
— 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. |