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A student of mythology may recognize many recurring motifs in creation stories and other myths, and several people have proposed various classifications of them. A good classification is Marta Weigle's from her Creation and Procreation:

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  • A student of mythology may recognize many recurring motifs in creation stories and other myths, and several people have proposed various classifications of them. A good classification is Marta Weigle's from her Creation and Procreation:
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  • A student of mythology may recognize many recurring motifs in creation stories and other myths, and several people have proposed various classifications of them. A good classification is Marta Weigle's from her Creation and Procreation: 1. * Primordial elements meet or mingle or otherwise get disturbed. 2. * A god creates by secreting something, like sweat or blood or semen or a parthenogenetic child or a spun web or excretions. 3. * A god either sacrifices him/herself or gets sacrificed to form the raw materials for creation. 4. * The hatching of a cosmic egg or dividing a closely-embraced earth and sky. 5. * Someone dives into the primordial ocean to get some sand or mud to create land with. 6. * The first people emerge from a small, cramped world into our larger world. 7. * There are two creators who either cooperate or compete. 8. * Deus faber is the "divine maker"; where a god forms something out of some material. 9. * Ex nihilo is "out of nothing", often creation by a god's command (ab mandato?).
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