Book ID: CBB993196380

Creation Stories: Landscapes and the Human Imagination (2021)

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Aveni, Anthony F. (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 240
Language: English

An accessible exploration of how diverse cultures have explained humanity’s origins through narratives about the natural environment Drawing from a vast array of creation myths—Babylonian, Greek, Aztec, Maya, Inca, Chinese, Hindu, Navajo, Polynesian, African, Norse, Inuit, and more—this concise illustrated book uncovers both the similarities and differences in our attempts to explain the universe.   Anthony Aveni, an award-winning author and professor of astronomy and anthropology, examines the ways various cultures around the world have attempted to explain our origins, and what roles the natural environment plays in shaping these narratives. The book also celebrates the audacity of the human imagination.   Whether the first humans emerged from a cave, as in the Inca myths, or from bamboo stems, as the Bantu people of Africa believed, or whether the universe is simply the result of Vishnu’s cyclical inhales and exhales, each of these fascinating stories reflects a deeper understanding of the culture it arose from as well as its place in the larger human narrative.

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Authors & Contributors
Walton, Benjamin
Trippett, David
Luciano Lazzaro
Wilson, Derek K.
Ziomkowski, Robert Marian
Vaughan, Simon
Concepts
Science and culture
Science and religion
Imagination
Creationism
Science, general histories
Western world, civilization and culture
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Early modern
Ancient
17th century
Modern
Places
Europe
Italy
Sweden
Spain
South Africa
Greece
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