Creation

Vedic tradition

• Creation appears in Vedic tradition.

  The Rigveda’s cosmogonic hymns (including the Nāsadīya and related creation songs) treat the becoming of the world as hymn subject. Vedic creation speech, not Enuma Elish combat and not Hermetic Poimandres alone.

  from Stephanie W. Jamison and Joel P. Brereton (translation) · The Rigveda, 2014 (this translation); hymns much older

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Shinto

• Creation appears in Shinto.

  The Kojiki opens with the becoming of heaven and earth, the island births, and the early kami generations. Creation as that court’s cosmogony, not Rigveda Nāsadīya alone and not Enuma Elish combat.

  from Ō no Yasumaro (compiler); Donald L. Philippi (translation) · Kojiki, 712 CE; Philippi trans. 1968

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Islam

• Creation appears in Islam.

  The Qur’an continually treats khalq (creation) of heavens, earth, and living things as God’s act and as a sign. Islamic creation speech in that revelation, not Rigveda cosmogony already walked and not a Big-Bang slogan.

  from M.A.S. Abdel Haleem (translation) · The Qur’an, 2004 (this translation); Arabic text 7th century CE

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Norse tradition

• Creation appears in Norse tradition.

  Völuspá in the Poetic Edda tells the shaping of worlds from the gap. A named creation speech in that poem, not Enuma Elish and not a generic origin slogan.

  from Anonymous (Eddic poems); Carolyne Larrington (translation) · Poetic Edda, medieval Icelandic compilation; Larrington trans. 1996/2014

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Mesopotamian tradition

• Creation appears in Mesopotamian tradition.

  Enuma Elish is the Babylonian cosmogony of combat and allotted offices after Marduk’s victory. A named creation speech in that Mesopotamian poem, not Gilgamesh’s flood plot and not a bare class-word dump alone.

  from Enuma Elish, standard version often dated to the late 2nd millennium BCE

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Hellenic religion

• Creation appears in Hellenic religion.

  Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 1 opens with the ordering of Chaos into lands, seas, and sky before the ages of humankind. A named creation cosmogony in that poem, not Prometheus as the clay-shaper alone and not every genesis dump.

  from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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• Creation is associated with Compass.

  In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, at Creation the Almighty is represented holding compasses and scales above the Dove on the waters — Creation is measured with that compass.

  from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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• Finite is associated with Creation.

  In Watson’s Biblical and Theological Dictionary, omnipotence is declared by the fact of creation of beings out of nothing, which exceeds finite measure even in a single object — finite marks that creation exceed-bound.

  from Richard Watson · A Biblical and Theological Dictionary, 1831–32 (Gutenberg #53884)

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• Aureole is associated with Creation.

  In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the Dove at Creation is enclosed in an aureole held by the Creator — aureole encloses that Creation dove.

  from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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• Dove is associated with Creation.

  In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, the Dove at Creation is enclosed in an aureole held by the Creator — dove is that Creation Spirit emblem.

  from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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