Series of creations. The present universe is the last of a succession of creations

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Series of creations. The present universe is the last of a succession of creations.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Creation of the universe. · Series of creations. · view the constellation · filed as A630

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Scholars’ trail — 2references

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AztecAlexander Lat. Am. 91.
general Etruscan: Fox 289. – Navaho: Alexander N. Am. 159ff.

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Pre-existing world of gods above. Such a world is assumed before the real creation of the universe. Though this belief is not explicitly set forth in many mythologies, it seems to be implied in most of the North American Indian systems. See, for example, motif A31, Creator's grandmother Succession of creations and cataclysms. From the ruins of each earlier creation a new one is raised Earlier universe opposite of present. Everything in the earlier world was the reverse of the present world. Cf. A855 New creation shouted away. It is unstable and therefore unsatisfactory

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