LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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Stories that provide an account of how the universe was made.
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Stories that people made up about how the world began because they didn’t have any scientific facts.
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Stories that provide an account of how the world began through the use of a symbolic narrative.
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Stories that ancient tribes made up to entertain people while explaining how the world began.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A creation myth or cosmogonic myth is a type of cosmogony, a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it.
Detailed explanation-2: -creation myth, also called cosmogonic myth, philosophical and theological elaboration of the primal myth of creation within a religious community. The term myth here refers to the imaginative expression in narrative form of what is experienced or apprehended as basic reality (see also myth).
Detailed explanation-3: -A creation myth is a supernatural mytho-religious story or explanation that describes the beginnings of humanity, earth, life, and the universe (cosmogony), usually as a deliberate act of “creation” by one or more deities. Many creation myths share broadly similar themes.
Detailed explanation-4: -For Hindus the universe was created by Brahma, the creator who made the universe out of himself. After Brahma created the world, it is the power of Vishnu which preserves the world and human beings. As part of the cycle of birth, life and death it is Shiva who will ultimately destroy the universe.
Detailed explanation-5: -2) Encyclopedia Britannica classifies creation myth into six types: cre-ation by creator, creation through emergence, creation by world parents, creation from the cosmic egg, creation by Earth divers, creation by corpse transformation.