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Mythologizing the Story of Creation in Indaba, My Children

المصدر: مجلة مصريقيا
الناشر: جامعة عين شمس - كلية البنات للآداب والعلوم والتربية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Younis, Lamees Mohamed Mohamed Abdel Ghany (Author)
المجلد/العدد: ع1
محكمة: نعم
الدولة: مصر
التاريخ الميلادي: 2021
الشهر: يناير
الصفحات: 46 - 64
ISSN: 2682-4116
رقم MD: 1124643
نوع المحتوى: بحوث ومقالات
اللغة: الإنجليزية
قواعد المعلومات: AraBase, HumanIndex
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كلمات المؤلف المفتاحية:
Bantu | Creation Myth | Genesis | Enuma Elis | Indaba
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المستخلص: This paper aims at studying the story of the creation of the universe in Book One of the Bantu Text Indaba, My Children (1964) in an attempt to contextualize it within parallel creation myths from other traditions and cultures. The paper claims that the text under study is a creation myth, which is viewed as a sacred text with a cosmogonist function: to inform about the creation of the universe. To achieve this end, the researcher compares the common motifs recurrent in two of the most famous creation myths: the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible and the Babylonian creation myth known as the Enûma Eliš on one hand, and the ones found in Indaba, My Children on the other. These motifs are the sexual act as a means of creation, the human form of the first creative being, bringing order after a state of chaos, and creation out of the feeling of loneliness. Through comparing those recurrent motifs in the above-mentioned texts, the researcher asserts that creation myths, even if they are geographically apart, share certain motifs and features that distinguish all of them.

ISSN: 2682-4116