Sentence examples for emergence myth from inspiring English sources
They have an emergence myth and share with all southern Athabaskans the culture hero known as "Killer-of-Enemies" and his younger brother "Child-of-the-Water" (comparable to the Twin Gods of the Pueblos).
Though the emergence myths portray the mildest form of this antagonism, it is still present in myths of this sort.
In emergence myths there seems to be an easy movement from one stage of creation to the next, but, as has been shown in the Navajo myth, at each subterranean level there is some type of antagonism among the developing embryonic creatures.
In the folklore of the Southwest, the emergence and migration myths show the indigenous peoples emerging from an unpleasant underworld at the time when the Earth is not yet completely formed.
The Sun and the Moon, who are connected with a myth about human emergence from a cave, together with various astral beings and a culture hero, were typical characters of Arawak mythology.
But Mr Fox has written a worthy successor to "Capital Ideas", the late Peter Bernstein's 1990s classic on the emergence of the rational-market myth: bang up-to-date; alas, without the happy ending.
This is illustrated by consideration of myths likely to recall (early) Holocene sea-level rise, particularly along the coasts of India and Australia, as well as myths recalling rapid episodic coastal emergence and submergence, the latter including the disappearance of entire landmasses (islands).
Various Egyptian creation myths retain the image of the emergence of a primeval hillock formed of mud churned from the chaotic waters of Nun.
That such myths were common currency, at least until the emergence of Daft Punk and Air, is remarkable given all the evidence to the contrary.
Myths that plausibly recall incidences of rapid coastal emergence are found in the Pacific Islands region, where there are many island coasts that have been subject to regular such events within the time of human occupation of particular islands [38, 39].
