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Narrating the Beginnings

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Editors:
  1. Alberto Bernabé Pajares

    1. Departamento de Filología Clásica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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  2. Raquel Martín Hernández

    1. Departamento de Filología Clásica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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  • Comparative study of the Creational Myths in different cultures from a new typological perspective
  • Comparative study of how human beings have imaged the origins of the world and the mankind: similarities and differences
  • Global perspective, both chronological and geographical

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
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  2. Introductory Remarks

    • Alberto Bernabé Pajares
    Pages 1-4

  3. Cosmogony in Progress

    • Julia M. Mendoza
    Pages 5-22

  4. Explaining the Emergence of Social Institutions in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Sumerian Myth Enki and the World Order

    • Barbara Böck
    Pages 23-51

  5. The Facets of the Diamond

    • José Ramón Pérez-Accino
    Pages 53-67

  6. Of Gods and Men: Bridging the Gap between Cosmogony and the Heroic Age in Early Greek Legendary History

    • Mary R. Bachvarova
    Pages 69-93

  7. Evil in Genesis and Other Ancient Near Eastern Creation Stories

    • Mark S. Smith
    Pages 95-116

  8. The Emergence of the World in Early Greek Theogonies from Hesiod to Acusilaus

    • Marco Antonio Santamaría
    Pages 117-137

  9. The Myth of the Supreme Creator in Arabian Lands

    • Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala
    Pages 139-154

  10. Völuspá, the Uncertainty of Norse Creation Myths and some Babylonian Parallels

    • Teodoro Manrique Antón
    Pages 155-174

  11. The Creation of the World According to Lakota Sioux Belief

    • Friedrich Pöhl
    Pages 175-193

  12. Concluding Remarks: The Sun Was a Green Egg

    • Sebastian Fink
    Pages 195-200
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About this book

The present book is a compilation of studies on narratives of mythical origins in different cultures written by outstanding specialists. It aims to provide a broad view on creation-myths from different times and areas of the world with a particular focus on how these texts contributed to the conception of the past as “universal history”, as a common origin of mankind or as the great opening, the theatrum mundi. On the other hand, the purpose of this book is to study the phenomenon from a typological point of view, analyzing the specific characteristics of this particular type of texts, rather than finding influences between the different cultures in the genesis of these narratives.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Departamento de Filología Clásica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Alberto Bernabé Pajares, Raquel Martín Hernández

About the editors

Prof. Dr. Alberto Bernabé Pajares is Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Dr. Raquel Martín Hernández is Lecturer at the Faculty of Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Narrating the Beginnings

  • Editors: Alberto Bernabé Pajares, Raquel Martín Hernández

  • Series Title: Universal- und kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-32184-0

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-32183-3Published: 02 April 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-32184-0Published: 02 April 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2524-3780

  • Series E-ISSN: 2524-3799

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 200

  • Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History

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