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Page 121
Just as the cycle of creation started with a world awash with the blood of Ymir ,
the first giant , so the final scene battlefield the immense plain of Vigrid , where
the gods were predestined to die . The forces of evil were mustered there under
the ...
Just as the cycle of creation started with a world awash with the blood of Ymir ,
the first giant , so the final scene battlefield the immense plain of Vigrid , where
the gods were predestined to die . The forces of evil were mustered there under
the ...
Page 164
Once he was satisfied with the world , he added everything that can now be
found in it . Another version of the story says that the body of Ta'aroa , like that of
Panku , formed the raw material for the creation of the world . The Tahitians
regarded ...
Once he was satisfied with the world , he added everything that can now be
found in it . Another version of the story says that the body of Ta'aroa , like that of
Panku , formed the raw material for the creation of the world . The Tahitians
regarded ...
Page 169
This is a paradoxical creation story in that the chaos monster , though slain and
dismembered , remains the body of the world ... A Pawnee creation myth tells
how Tirawa held a council in heaven and assigned tasks to the other gods
present .
This is a paradoxical creation story in that the chaos monster , though slain and
dismembered , remains the body of the world ... A Pawnee creation myth tells
how Tirawa held a council in heaven and assigned tasks to the other gods
present .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Myths & Legends |
| Author | Arthur Cotterell |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1989 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Dec 2006 |
| ISBN | 0025801813, 9780025801813 |
| Length | 260 pages |
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