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Sep 18, 2012 · An illustrated collection of twenty-five myths from various parts of the world explaining the creation of the world Newbery Honor Book, 1989
An origin myth is a type of myth that explains the beginnings of a natural or social aspect of the world. Creation myths are a type of origin myth narrating the formation of the universe. However, numerous cultures have stories that take place after the initial origin.
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Origin Stories from Around the World. Creation myths, or origin stories, tell us what a culture believes about how humans came to be. They can also tell us much about what that culture valu...
Origin Stories Introduction. By Cynthia Stokes Brown. All humans yearn to know where we came from and how our world began. We may have different stories, but they all serve a similar purpose. Everywhere around the world people tell stories about how the Universe began and how humans came into being.
From the Garden of Eden, to the female creators of Acoma Indians, to the rival creators of the Basonge tribe in the Congo, Creation Myths of the World: An Encyclopedia, Second Edition...
World Book was founded in Chicago by publishers J. H. Hansen and John Bellow, who realized that existing encyclopedias were off-putting to readers. In 1915, they enlisted the help of Michael Vincent O'Shea, a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin. [5]
Virginia Hamilton. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1988 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 161 pages. A thought-provoking collection of twenty-five stories that reflect the wonder and glory of the origins of the...
