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WHAT DOES A CREATION MYTH DO?
Lecture Notes
Ted E. Tollefson, 1989

1. Explains how the world comes into being

2. Establishes a model of the creative process

3. Builds up a world-view, a hierarchy of values, "first things first"

4. Often, but not always, this hierarchy includes genders, races, tribes, religions

5. Gender implies sexuality, which is often linked to savlation

6. Explaining how things come to be (#1) often involves explaining how and why bad things happen.  The  description of the Fall or Descent tells us who to blame (malogony).

7. Myths of malogony are often disguised indictments of rival mythological systems.

8. Myths of Fall imply myths of Return; Sin implies Grace, Disease implies Cure.

9. Patterns of divine/human interaction establish models for ethics.

10. All creation myths cast a shadow, evil disguised as other, often that of displaced gods of Goddesses.





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