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Compare and contrast the stories of how the world was created, from Titans and Olympian gods of ancient Greece, to the dreamtime of the Aboriginal peoples. Features legends from classical Egypt nd Babylon, through to tales from Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Read about Marduk and the Tables of Destiny, Five Aztec Worlds, Obtala and the Hen, and the Cosmic Coconut. Background information to the stories provides context for young students to understand...
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"Throughout history, all human cultures had creation stories in which one or more gods arose, often in a burst of light, from the dark depths of non-existence. That divine being then progressed to one or more acts of creation. This idea of a miraculous creation by one or multiple thinking beings is one of a few core cultural concepts-also including love, death, and war-that have long been universal to human societies"--