Subtitle:
Creation stories from around the world
Edition:
1st
Place of Publication:
San Diego, California
Publisher:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers
Copyright Date:
1988
ISBN / SBN / ISSN:
0152387404
Media Type:
Print (Non-Serial)
Media Sub-type:
Book
LoC Call Number:
BL 226 .H35 1988
Accession Number:
072112
Keyword Subject Headings:
World myth
Creation stories
Folktales
Gods and heros
Creation stories
Folktales
Gods and heros
User Notes:
Hardbound; xi + 161 pp., including bibliography and 42 illustrations by Barry Moser
Table of Contents:
The Pea-pod man: Raven the creator
Finding night: Quat the creator
An endless sea of mud: Death the creator
Bursting from the hen's egg: Phan Ku the creator
Traveling to form the world: Old Man the creator
First man becomes the devil: Ulgen the creator
Turtle dives to the bottom of the sea: Earth Starter the creator
Moon and Sun: Mawu-Lisa the creators
Bandicoots come from his body: Karora the creator
Spider Ananse finds something: Wulbari the creator
The woman who fell from the sky: Divine Woman the creator
Man copies god: Nyambi the creator
The frost giant: Imir the creator
Owner of the sky: Olorun the creator
Marduk, god of gods: Apsu and Tiamat the creators
Four creations to make man: Maker and Feathered Serpent the creators
Angry gods: Ta-aroa the creator
Sun, life, wind, and death : God Lowa the creator
The sun-god and the dragon: God Ra the creator
Separation of earth and sky: Sedi and Melo the creators
First man, first woman: Yahweh the creator
The coming of all things: the Greek creators
The god brings fire to man: Prometheus the creator
Pandora: Zeus the creator
In the beginning: Elohim the creator
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