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ORIGIN MYTHS A WIDE VARIETY OF MYTHS tell of how the world came into being . A common theme is that before the beginning of time , there exists only darkness until a trickster figure creates the world . The Inupiaq Eskimos have oral ...
ORIGIN MYTHS A WIDE VARIETY OF MYTHS tell of how the world came into being . A common theme is that before the beginning of time , there exists only darkness until a trickster figure creates the world . The Inupiaq Eskimos have oral ...
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It contains the rare myths of the divine origin of the Shang and the Zhou , each through an ancestral goddess . The later texts of Confucian philosophy refer only briefly to mythical figures , but the Confucian text , Mencius ( 350 BCE ) ...
It contains the rare myths of the divine origin of the Shang and the Zhou , each through an ancestral goddess . The later texts of Confucian philosophy refer only briefly to mythical figures , but the Confucian text , Mencius ( 350 BCE ) ...
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Imperial Inca civilisation saw its place of origin not in Cuzco its capital , but in and around Lake Titicaca to the south . As in Mesoamerica , creations were seen in terms of the relationships between light and dark , and successive ...
Imperial Inca civilisation saw its place of origin not in Cuzco its capital , but in and around Lake Titicaca to the south . As in Mesoamerica , creations were seen in terms of the relationships between light and dark , and successive ...
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