Creation of heaven, earth, and hell

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Creation of heaven, earth, and hell.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Creation of the universe. · Creation of universe by creator. · view the constellation · filed as A610.2

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In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 13, Section I
IndicThe Mahābhārata, Book 12, Section CXC
Hermetic / AlchemicalThrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena, Chapter V: The Main Source of the Trismegistic Literature according to Manetho, High Priest of Egypt

Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

JewishNeuman
HawaiiBeckwith Myth 42.

Within the index

Filed under Creation of universe by creator. The creator is existing before all things.

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All things created in pairs (heaven and earth, etc.)Fiat creation. Universe is created at command of creator Creation: materialization of creator's thinking. Creator "thinks outward in space" and thus produces the universe Creation from creator's tears Universe from parts of creator's body. Ymir makes the world from his members – mountains from bones, cliffs from teeth, heavens from skull, etc Universe as offspring of creator. The Sky Father begets various parts of the universe by his various wives Creation of universe from clam-shell on primeval water by creator Universe created by various activities of creator

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