Sentence examples for creation tale from inspiring English sources

This creation tale is part of "The Art of Storytelling," a festival continuing at the museum today and tomorrow.

Biblical and mythological references fly in this somewhat sinister creation tale, along with absurd insults and enigmatic directives.

When Schectman died on Tuesday at 94, he was remembered as a central figure in the National Basketball Association's creation tale.

The tribe's creation tale, called "The Heart of the Monster," centers on a rock formation that sits in a meadow on the reservation, alongside Highway 12. Coyote comes to Earth and finds a monster killing all the world's animals.

But Mr. Augustine's script and foam rubber puppets, with the exception of a glittery-eyed rat, are a lot less convincing in this gothic creation tale, performed by his Lone Wolf Tribe company (1 30).

This reflects not a global slowdown, but rather the cosmology of the Anishanabe Indians, whose creation tale is just one of the cultural expressions to be celebrated at the two-day Children's Festival at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian.

And how do we come off as a species in these creation tales?

Oral literature and especially a variety of elaborate creation tales and epic poems was the art form for which native Californians were most renowned.

Kipling's Just So Stories are in the great tradition of creation tales, of which, in western culture at least, the best-known of all is to be found in Genesis.

How the Whale Became by composer Julian Philips and librettist Edward Kemp, is based on Ted Hughes's well-loved story collection The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales.

The overflowing well is a common motif in local Gaelic creation tales - as seen in the goddess Boann's similar creation of the River Boyne in Ireland.