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Mythology Can Change One

Creation myths are central to explaining a culture's worldview and the origins of humanity. Many myths involve some form of differentiation from a primordial chaos, and feature themes of duality, sacrifice, and the world being formed from a primordial being or parts of an animal. Myths provide meaning and purpose around the creation of humans and their place in the world. They offer insights into a culture's relationships with gods and the natural world.

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Mythology Can Change One

Creation myths are central to explaining a culture's worldview and the origins of humanity. Many myths involve some form of differentiation from a primordial chaos, and feature themes of duality, sacrifice, and the world being formed from a primordial being or parts of an animal. Myths provide meaning and purpose around the creation of humans and their place in the world. They offer insights into a culture's relationships with gods and the natural world.

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 mythology can change one’s perception and can open pathways to another ways of discovering, feeling

and experiencing one’s lives.

mythology was the key in explaining the existence of the world they lived in.

The view of creation of world,life and humans is driven by


myths.

The view of the creation of the world, life, and humans is


Creation myth is driven by the
creation myths, that there is also an attempt to explain why human existence is imperfect.

I therefore assumed that suffering and imperfection were present from the
beginning.

A common thread that connects most of these myths is the transformation of


a seemingly perfect creation to imperfection.

Authentic myths and supplementary stories were both brought together in


the spacious frame of heroic poetry

It is in the nature of humans to wonder about the unknown and search for answers.
At the foundation of nearly every culture is a creation myth that explains how the
wonders of the earth came to be. These myths have an immense influence on
people's frame of reference. They influence the way people think about the world
and their place in relation to their surroundings. Despite being separated by
numerous geographical barriers many cultures have developed creation myths with
the same basic elements.

https://www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths.html
Creation myths are of central importance for the valuation of the world, for the orientation of
humans in the universe, and for the basic patterns of life and culture

Hume observed that without an idea of cause and effect, we would be utterly
incapable of making sense of the world around us. The problem, however, is that
all we observe is one darn thing after another: we never actually see one thing
causing something else. Nor do we have sound rational reasons for leaping from
observations of regularity to the conclusion that two things are linked by some
necessary connection.

Creation myths are one of the most highly valued myths because the myth itself gives
purpose to its culture’s existence through its interpretation of the specific creation of
human beings.

By interpreting and analyzing creation myths, we provide ourselves with a window into
the driving forces of that culture’s members, as well as a viewpoint on how individuals
and society may have viewed their connection to their god(s). In these creation myths,
the elements of how, when, and why men and women are created serve as the basis for
revealing the specific relationship a culture holds with its god(s). They also provide
insights into other relationships.

Myths and mythology express a culture’s worldview: that is, a people’s conceptions
and assumptions about humankind’s place in nature and the universe, and the limits
and workings of the natural and spiritual world. 

It is by comparing themselves to nature around them that human beings can note their
natural connection to the animal world, with which they share most of their vital functions.
Yet they realize, at the same time, they are unique and emerging over the rest of the natural
world. Human beings are the subject of a specific phenomenology which belongs to them
only, and whose origin raises crucial questions when considered in the context of their
habitat, of the entire planet Earth, and in the larger scenario of the physical universe. From
the phenomenological point of view, the uniqueness and the emergence of the human race
become visible in many ways. Think of the capacity humans have to adapt their habitat to
themselves, according to specific intentions and projects, and to adapt themselves to it in
the most convenient way; their language, which allows them to communicate through
universal and symbolic forms of communication, and develop abstract thought despite the
concreteness and the immediateness of their instinctive life; their capacity to understand the
natural world, whose behavior they are able to predict and transform according to their
needs; their restless search for further knowledge and deliberate targets, which gives rise to
their  history. Yet the uniqueness of human beings emerges clearly from their capacity to
produce culture and, especially, from their religious dimension, which has led them to
wonder about the meaning of their existence, the freedom and morality of their actions, the
beginning and the end of all things.

humankind's uniqueness and emergence prove to be a consequence of their being created


in the image and likeness of God.

Foundation myths in some way define the cultures that


produced them. As a foundation myth develops over time, it
becomes a way for people to understand the nature of the world
they live in and their place within that world. It provides support
for the culture's way of viewing the world, in much the same
way that the foundation of a house supports the structure.

 they tend to have a number of elements or themes in common.


The first of these elements is the idea of creation as a kind of
birth, often from an egg.

creation myths is the concept that the universe has both a


father and a mother. 
Common to most creation myths is the notion of a supreme
being.

another theme that runs through the world's creation myths is


the question of whether creation took place from above or
below.
A related theme is that of the "diver" myth, which sees creation
as somehow having been pulled out from chaos or muck. 

PERSONIFICATION TYPE
ALWAYS GET MARRIED EVEN THO THER SIBLINGS WTF
THE NATURE WAS THEIR GOD
NAHUGOT ANG HUMAN KIND THROUGH NATURE
BELIEFS ARE CHILDSH, SUPERSTITIOUS, AND
IMAGINATIAVE
Our quest for knowledge is insatiable and immutable.

What we experience as reality is considered to occur in a conscious or mindful


state.

This they believed to be the mental states of the human psyche. The mind, they
argued has different qualities or characteristics, which are responsible for our
feelings, thoughts, and ultimately our behavior. In order to survive, human beings
developed ways of coping with environmental stresses.

Myth constitutes the original symbolic form by framing human experience as a way
of coming to terms with the mysteries of life.

starting off the evolutionary line that led to human beings.


he collective unconscious uses archetypes such as the ideas of female or male,
good and evil, or hero and villain. These dualities, Jung contends, play an active
role in self and group identity. In short, the unconscious state of being informs the
conscious state of being in many wayshuman beings began to think about the
commonalities of life: birth, suffering/sacrifice and death. Origin myths, around the
world and in different cultures recognize this cycle, but there is no one consistent
explanation to our first questions.

in need for making order out of chaos and using the imagination (something unique
to humans) as a way to solve problems. Telling stories about where we come from
is a great example of our need to rationalize, categorize and
understand. Brenneman notes, “Our self-awareness allowed us to create a symbolic
world in order to pass on information, ideas and mythology. We began to create a
world around us to symbolize what has existed within.”

 DIFFERENTATION.
Differentiation refers to the forming of distinct things out of what was once a
formless unity.
DUALITY. Dualism, or tension between opposing forces, is an underlying theme of
many creation stories, especially those that revolve around conflict.

SACRIFICE. This theme refers to the idea that life is born out of death.
Edith Hamilton notes, “Sacrifices recur throughout the Greek myths, not just
because physical sacrifice was significant in ancient Greek
societies. Antigone stands as the best example, for she sacrifices herself in
order to bury her brother.”
Sacrifice infers that in order for the world to come together and make order
out of chaos, there must be sacrifice.
It needs to be mentioned that there are many other themes common to
creation mythology such as heroes, love, faith, and fate.

Humanity is Made for


Love
Humanity is explicitly created as male and female and as inherently being in relationship, made
in the image and likeness of God the Trinity, who is Love and Truth.
unity of the two

consanguinamory
land emerging from an infinite and timeless ocean; or creation out of nothing.
Creation through emergence

tween humans and animals and plants in myths and popular folk


traditions and in so-called primitive and popular systems of
classification.
Creation by earth drivers – dualistic cration

Humans, animals, and plants may stand in a relationship of (1)


opposition or difference, (2) descent, (3) mixture, (4) transformation,
(5) identity, or (6) similarity
 Sacrificial motifs abound, such as the world being formed from the
cut-up parts of an animal or restored by its primordial sacrifice.
Cosmogonies
Reason and rationality, upon which modern, westernized, societies have been founded, have powerfully
characterized the nature of human relations with other species and with the natural world. However,
countless indigenous and traditional worldviews tell of a very different reality in which humans, conceived
of as instinctual and intuitive, are a part of a complex web of ecological relationships. Other species,
elements of the natural world, and people are active participants in relations overflowing with
communications, interactions sometimes recorded in ethnographies, or as ‘myths’ and ‘stories’. The
present article draws upon a range of traditions to explore the biases which shape how indigenous and
traditional life-ways are represented in westernized contexts; the phenomenon of receiving direct insight
or intuitive knowing from more-than-human worlds; and the numerous valuable understandings regarding
the nature of the human being, other species, and how to live well, that are offered by a deeper
comprehension of different worldviews. I also argue that the various capacities for instinctual and intuitive
knowledge which accompanies these life-ways are endemic to the human species yet overlooked, the
correction of which might work to usefully recalibrate our ethical relations with each other, and with other
life on earth.

It evokes knowledges coming together. There is power and knowledge with two waters mixing…
gänma has to be actually be two ways. Western knowledges too need to learn… people are not
separated from nature. The earth is not separated from the sky. Songs and stories are not separated from
people and objects. All these things exist as part of one another and come into being together… [as Lalak
Burarrwanga explains] …you have to start from the place—whoever, whatever clan you are you start from
your own land. And then you sing what’s there in the land

https://www.britannica.com/topic/creation-myth/Creation-by-world-parents#ref33940

1. Creations myths are idealistic


2. Creation myths are driven by earth divers
3. Creation myths
Creativity was disembodied by the first Filipinos genius, a divine
attendant spirit from a distant and unknowable source.

Filipinos imagination is the beginning of creation.


The creativity was embodied by the first Filipinos.
The talent of being creative was embodied by the First Filipinos.
Creation myths by the first Filipinos is creative minds
Creation myths are proof that the talent of being creative was embodied
by the First Filipinos.

. The successful embedding of a creative idea, method, or product can change the institution


— and the world.

The creativity of the first Filipino embodies was manifested by creation myths.

Creation myths are proof that the ability of being


creative was embodied by the First Filipinos.
It provides support for the culture's way of viewing the world
they point to have a number of factors in common.

Creation myths claim that the ability of being


creative was manifested by the First Filipinos.
 Creation myths are expression of their
imagination. ( comes from having open minded,
Uniqueness in Diff Perspectives, Ideas that
leads to innovation)
 Creation myths are attributions by the birth of
the world. (adaptation, different versions,
transforming, emergence,)
 Creation myths have ideas of deep analytical beliefs. (Cosmogonies)

 Creation myth seek motivations other than concern for


truth. ( the will to lead, help, inspired other people)
 Creation myths are the personification of resourcefulness or expediency (cultures, basic
patterns of life and ideal culture)
o Creation myths are inspired by earth divers. ( nature, animals)

Attempting to recreate it was never practical


The wonderful thing about creation myths is the possibility of a new one
to emerge. It doesn’t have to be the start of the physical universe, it could
be a world beginning entirely for myself. The myth is only the origin —
what comes after is entirely up to me.

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