what are two characteristics of an origin myth?

Question

(a story that explains how things came to be)

so what are 2 characteristics of one?

Answer 1

1.) It as valid as any other faith based story of creation.

2.) It explains how things came to be.

3.) Everybody who believes something else says it is a myth.

4.) It explains the relationships between things and beings in a manner that leads to religious dogma.

Answer 2

1. They describe the original state of the universe - mostly a form of chaos
2. Origin myths usually describe a supernatural being that created the world and humans. Often it also gives a genealogy of the gods as well as the ancestors of the believers.
3. Although believers are usually aware of the fact that modern physics is in contradiction to their beliefs they still think that the myth expresses an underlying truth that is not affected by science.

Answer 3

1. There is the possibility that Jungs concept of a "Racial unconscious" is an actuality.

2. At one point there were so few thinking and remembering creatures that could be called Humans that any event was an event affecting all humankind.

Answer 4

most creation myths have an original creation, then there is a revolt that brings the need for a new re-creation.

The Holy bible has the creation of the universe and populating of it by what we call "Angels" then some angels broke of and brought evil ito the world, destroying it, causing God to have to Re-create the world, thus we get the Genesis account: "In the beginning God Created the Heavens and The Earth.(the first creation) The Earth was formless and void, and darkness was upon the face of the earth (the distruction). and God said "let there be light" and there was light and God saw the light and said it was good (the start of recreation)

Answer 5

Belief in a purpose and
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