MYTHS OF CREATION
6. From Creation
To Catastrophe |
6.1
All mythopoeic cosmovisions of all ancient peoples, moreover universally promoted an overall view of nature & humankind as being subject to an unfinished, open-ended succession of consecutive creations, destructions, & regenerative renewals transpiring over extended eras of cyclically recurring time: — a sequential chain of WORLD AGES, each related to, but likewise separated from one another by intervening catastrophes & violently disruptive changes in the regular course of nature, which eventually brought each ensuing new Age down crashing in a quickly collapsing disastrous demise — — w/ successive sequels of this same series of occurrences finally culminating in the creative destruction of the Age immediately preceding our own, followed by the emergence of the modern world order of the present day. ___________________
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