cosmological myth

It is true that I often work from old fairytales, which are narrated cosmological myths.

A cosmological myth," Vosnesensky said. "

In the cosmological myths of several cultures a World Turtle carries the world upon its back or supports the heavens.

Greek cosmological myths tell of how Ophion the snake incubated the primordial egg from which all created things were born.

The apocalyptic expectations of the Essenes had turned into the cosmological myths of the Gnostics.

Like the Big Bang so dear to modern astrophysics, the north European cosmological myths have echoes that can still be detected today.

Flying (winged) horses as symbols of the Sun were widely used in the cosmological myths of Turkic peoples.

For the first time, the Israelites became seriously interested in Yahweh's role in creation, perhaps because of renewed contact with the cosmological myths of Babylon.

As such it is a form of cosmological myth (a type of myth that explains the origins of a culture and the problems that faces it).

In another cosmological myth (Zadspram 3.2-3), when Angra Mainyu breaks into the created world, the fravashis draw together on the rim of the sky to imprison him.

Apu, the third class of stories (from pu : 'base; foundation; origin') are creation stories or cosmological myths that relate how present empirical and sociocultural realities came into being.

In this book, he argues on the basis of ancient cosmological myths from places as disparate as India and China, Greece and Rome, Assyria and Sumer.

The cosmological myth called the Ainulindalë, or "Music of the Ainur", describes how the Ainur sang for Ilúvatar, who then created Eä to give material form to their music.

The author of "Mysteries and Discoveries of Archaeoastronomy," Magli suggests that the ceremonial path into the city was conceived as a replica of the path followed by the first Incas in cosmological myth.

So went the Indian cosmological myth told in "Chakra: A Celebration of India," which the National Dance Institute presented on Monday night at the Majestic Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

The Ainulindalë, the cosmological myth prefixed to The Silmarillion, explains how the supreme being Eru initiated his creation by bringing into being innumerable spirits, "the offspring of his thought", who were with him before anything else had been made.

Within the framework of the Cumontian supposition that the Mithraic mysteries was the "Roman form of Mazdaism", the (now obsolete) traditional view held that the tauroctony represented Zoroastrianism's cosmological myth of the killing of a primordial bovine.

The conclusion of this brief statement appears then to be a further and unconnected step: that the cosmological myth of The Silmarillion was a 'creative error' on the part of its maker, since it could have no imaginative truth for people who know very well that such an 'astronomy' is delusory.