LITERATURE QUESTIONS
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
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A creation myth explains the existence of just one thing in the world.
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A creation myth includes cultural details about the people from whom the story originated.
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A creation myth is about the creation of the earth and the beginning of mankind.
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A creation myth is nonfiction.
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Detailed explanation-1: -An origin myth is a myth that describes the origin of some feature of the natural or social world. One type of origin myth is the creation or cosmogonic myth, a story that describes the creation of the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the beginning there was a period of Chaos, when air, water, and matter were combined in a formless mixture. On this floated a Cosmic Egg, from which arose Gaea (Earth) and Uranus (Sky). These deities created the earth and its creatures and the Sun, Moon, and Stars. Thus the Greeks accounted for creation.