Creator creates earth piecemeal

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Creator creates earth piecemeal.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · –A899. The earth. · –A839. Creation of the earth. · Creation of earth by creator. Genesis ch. I. · view the constellation · filed as A837

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Earth from body of person (animal) Creation because of creator's lonesomeness. Dissatisfied at being alone in center of primeval water, God creates the earth Earth from creator's cuticle. (Cf. A1211.5.) Earth from nut in devil's mouth. God throws a nut over his left shoulder. The devil catches it in his mouth. The nut grows rapidly and the devil spits it out Creator prepared earth's nucleus as one would a rice cake

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