Four Corners of the Sky: Creation Stories and Cosmologies from Around the World
By Steve Zeitlin.
Description
What is the universe? How did it get that way? Here are thought-provoking answers from throughout history and around the world."In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth." -King James Bible"In the beginning, before men, before the Gods, all was chaos." -Greek mythFolklorist Steve Zeitlin gives answers to the questions everyone asks about the nature of the universe: What is it? Where did it come from? Will it end? A picture of the universe is a cosmology, and every culture has its own. People build these stories from the world around them. The ancient Egyptia...
ISBN(s)
0805048162, 9780805048162
