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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
    • 2) Mythic Media >
      • 1 In the Beginning
      • 2 Artifacts of Cultural Memory
      • 3 Global Unanimity Uncovered
      • 4 Comparative World Mythology
      • 5 Myth-making through the Ages
  • THE CREATION OF MYTH
    • Introduction
    • Thesis
    • 1 Orality >
      • Preliterate Cultural Memory
      • Rock Art
    • 2 Authority >
      • Myth and History
      • What kind of Truth?
    • 3 Community >
      • Ritual Extensions of Myth
      • Shared Image of the World
      • Group Constructions
    • 4 Efficacy >
      • Mythic Rituals
      • As Below, So Above
      • Group Responses
      • Survival Value
    • 5 Persistence >
      • Management of Memory
      • Mutatis Mutandis
    • Caveat
    • Coda
  • MYTHS ARE HISTORY
    • 1 Premise >
      • Comparative World Mythology
    • 2 Proposition >
      • Catastrophism & Cosmogony
      • Catastrophist Speculation
    • 3 Demonstration >
      • Instability of Solar System
      • Observational Evidence
    • 2) When Seeing Was Believing >
      • 1 Primacy of Sight
      • 2 Partial Perspectives
      • 3 Similarities & Differences
    • 3) Comparative World Symposium >
      • Seeing the Past Anew >
        • 1 A New Impartial Gathering ...
        • 2 A Global Synoptic View ...
        • 3 An Interdisciplinary Chronology ...
  • The Jupiter Myth
  • 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
    • 2) Mythic Media >
      • 1 In the Beginning
      • 2 Artifacts of Cultural Memory
      • 3 Global Unanimity Uncovered
      • 4 Comparative World Mythology
      • 5 Myth-making through the Ages
  • THE CREATION OF MYTH
    • Introduction
    • Thesis
    • 1 Orality >
      • Preliterate Cultural Memory
      • Rock Art
    • 2 Authority >
      • Myth and History
      • What kind of Truth?
    • 3 Community >
      • Ritual Extensions of Myth
      • Shared Image of the World
      • Group Constructions
    • 4 Efficacy >
      • Mythic Rituals
      • As Below, So Above
      • Group Responses
      • Survival Value
    • 5 Persistence >
      • Management of Memory
      • Mutatis Mutandis
    • Caveat
    • Coda
  • MYTHS ARE HISTORY
    • 1 Premise >
      • Comparative World Mythology
    • 2 Proposition >
      • Catastrophism & Cosmogony
      • Catastrophist Speculation
    • 3 Demonstration >
      • Instability of Solar System
      • Observational Evidence
    • 2) When Seeing Was Believing >
      • 1 Primacy of Sight
      • 2 Partial Perspectives
      • 3 Similarities & Differences
    • 3) Comparative World Symposium >
      • Seeing the Past Anew >
        • 1 A New Impartial Gathering ...
        • 2 A Global Synoptic View ...
        • 3 An Interdisciplinary Chronology ...
  • The Jupiter Myth