Table of
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Introduction:
Images and Stories of the Origins of the World and of Humankind
in
Traditional and Modern Contexts
Julia A.B.
Hegewald and Marion Gymnich
Chapter 2
Prevalent
Themes and Motifs in Traditional Creation Mythology
Julia A.B.
Hegewald
Chapter 3
Cyclic
Indic Creations
Robert J.
Del Bontà
Chapter 4
An Indian
Critique of the Notion of Absolute Beginning
Satyanad
Kichenassamy
Chapter 5
The Impact
of Naṭarāja’s Drum: Visualisation of Naṭarāja’s role as creator through the
architecture and iconographic programme of the Naṭarāja Temple in Chidambaram
Sandra
Jasmin Schlage
Chapter 6
Reflections
of the Origins of the World in the Water Architecture of South Asia
Julia A.B.
Hegewald
Chapter 7
Creating a
Landscape through Myths: The Journey of Naiṇī or Nāginā Devī, a Nine-fold
Western Himalayan Hindu Goddess
Gerrit
Lange
Chapter 8
Visual
Modes of Chinese Cosmogonies
Claudia
Wenzel
Chapter 9
Creation in
the Kojiki and Nihongi and Hesiod’s Theogony: Yin
and Yang and Divine Parentage
Hannah
Weber
Chapter 10
Succession of Divine Generations and Multiple Creations of Human
Beings: Conceptions and Images of the Origins of the World and Humankind in
Ancient Greece
Ralf
Krumeich
Chapter 11
From Ovid
to Gregory of Nazianzus: A Hermetic Creation Story and Its Tradition
Fritz Graf
Chapter 12
Creatio-Ex-Mud:
The Shape of Clay Creation in the Ancient Near East
Samantha
Reilly
Chapter 13
Narratives
of Monotheistic Creation between Islamic Philosophy (falsafah) and Ibn
Taymīyah
Julio César
Cárdenas Arenas
Chapter 14
The
Creation of the World and the Creation of Man: Apologetic Argument for the
Equality of Women in Feminist Qur’ānic Exegesis
Christine
Schirrmacher
Chapter 15
The
Cultural Foundations of the Sixteenth-Century Popol Vuh ‘Preamble’ Addressing the Origin of the World and
Humankind, and their Relation to the Classic Period of the Maya (300–1000 CE)
Daniel
Grana-Behrens
Chapter 16
Creation Myth as a Decolonising Strategy
Reading Selected Retellings of Indian and Canadian Indigenous Myth of
Creation
Athira Mohan
Chapter 17
Humanity and its Others:
(Post-Darwinist) Stories of the Origins of Humankind
Marion
Gymnich / Klaus Scheunemann
Chapter 18
Evolving Origins and the Artificial Human in Science Fiction
Stefan Lampadius
Chapter 19
Creation Myths as Part of Fantasy World-Building: The
Case of Tolkien’s “Powers of the World” in The Silmarillion
Constance Wessel