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A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc.
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Miller, F. P., Vandome, A. F., & McBrewster, J. (2010), Mythical origins of language: Origin of language, mythology, oral tradition, deluge myth, creator deity, creation myth, confusion of tonges, Tower of Babel, VDM Publishing House{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Two of those are the same as each other with uncertain reliability, one is a file-sharing site with no provenance of content, one uses term myth to mean a misconcception but it's talking about whether the Big Bang was really the beginning of everything. Taken together, I don't see anything to do with these refs at this time. DMacks (talk) 22:37, 13 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I feel that this article would be more objective if the name was changed to "Creation narrative", as this would be more objective than "Creation myth", a title which unobjectively paints the subject matter as being definitively a myth. Joieman (talk) 15:45, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, Joieman. The article title would need to follow WP:COMMONAME. You can set up a WP:RM discussion and make the case based on that guideline why "creation narrative" should be used instead of "creation myth". For example, a look at Google Scholar shows since 2020 that "creation myth" has 6,130 results here where "creation narrative" has 3,120 results here. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me)16:10, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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