#creation myth

[nemfrog]

Hindu cosmology.

Our Wonder World. 1930.

Internet Archive

[eljefespeaks]

[shadowcatgirl09]

It has been a minute since First Kill was cancelled but their take on Lilith, the Serpent and vampires will always sit with me.

[rikaklassen]

From 201 - 245 of the first rune titled “Creation and the Birth of Väinämöinen” in “Kalevala: The Epic of the Finnish People” edited by Elias Lönnrot and translated by blind Finnish-born American translator Eino Friberg in 1988.

There is a similar body of text from the introduction to the 2021 republication from Penguin Classics by Jukka Korpela and is footnoted as “Kalevala I:179–244”:

A previous partner has a forearm tattoo of 7,000 years old swan petroglyph laying an egg from Lake Ääninen in Karelia. According to her, the world was born from the golden egg of a swan.

[nahmann]

[rikaklassen]

I love learning Pazyryk culture also has swans as part of their creation stories.

Mostly because the person I knew has a tattooed petroglyph referencing creation myth in her own culture in which the world was born from the egg of a swan. Last time we spoke, she was also considering getting Pazyryk tattoos. I don't know if she got them yet or not.

But I love that for her.

[daisypreaker]

godhood myths are always rife with incest, but the tale of brahma and shatarupa always struck a chord with me when i was young and first started reading up on hindu scriptures. basically, it was an obsession with shiva that led me to it. the gist of it was that this father-god created a daughter-goddess, though it is disputed whether she was created simply as his child or his consort (whole can of worms there). he fell immediately in lust with her, and wherever she darted to avoid his gaze, he grew another head to follow, hence inventing the four points of the compass. but when he grew a fifth head, shiva appeared and sliced it off and chided the literal creator of the universe for his incestuous behaviour. the dispute on whether shatarupa was created to be his daughter or his wife is plainly settled by shiva deciding that brahma was being incestuous, though shiva has been known to wrongly sever heads from necks so one can still use this argument to point out rash behaviour here. but brahma didn't immediately destroy him in the aftermath and instead repented which implies shiva was right. i always found it interesting how the first female ever created in this myth was a daughter, and the first instance of male lust she was subjected to was from her father.

anyway, that being said, i'm sure there are other creation tales in the world as equally incestuous as the greeks (fun fact, i believe there's a tale where brahma takes the form of a bull because shatarupa took the form of a cow to escape him which was giving major zeus vibes). incest in mythology is an old theme but non-western ones in particular really interest me because there can be an astonishing amount of overlap.

[parentscomputer-official]

but yes i think in part all myths are true because i did not need to read a wikipedia article on vietnamese mythology to know that maybe the mountains and the seas that i treasure love me a little bit back