These cosmogonic theories have their precedent in the Thalatth or Tiamat of Syrian mythology, the life-mother of whom Berossus has so much to relate, or in the world-egg out of which when cloven asunder heaven and earth and all things proceed.
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The " Mantrika Upanishad ", states Maurice Bloomfield, is notable through its verse 10 13, for being an exception in the Upanishadic corpus, that provides an almost complete cryptic catalogue of the cosmogonic and theosophic hymns in Gopatha Brahmana of Atharvaveda.
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Among these may be reckoned the Swede, V . Rydberg, who shows great learning in the combination of various aspects of mythical narratives and according to whom even the cosmogonic myths are to be classed among the original possessions of the primitive Indo-European period.
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While there is no direct proof of an original solar meaning of Janus, this being the issue of learned speculations of the Roman erudits initiated into the mysteries and of emperors as Domitian, the derivation from a Syrian cosmogonic deity proposed by P . Grimal looks more acceptable.
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Girardot ( 1976 : 300 ) reasons that " Daodejing " evocations of the Dao as " a cosmic principle of the beginnings would seem to make little sense without seeing the possibility that it was rooted in the symbolic remembrance of archaic mythological, especially cosmogonic, themes ."
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Bartolom?de las Casas stated that in the Alta Verapaz, Hun-Ahan ( probably'One-Woodcarver') and Hun-Cheven ( Hun-Chowen in the Popol Vuh ) were counted among the thirteen sons of the upper god, and were celebrated as cosmogonic creator deities.
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Citing Ymir as a prime example, scholars J . P . Mallory and Douglas Q . Adams comment that " the [ Proto-Indo-European ] cosmogonic myth is centered on the dismemberment of a divine being either anthropomorphic or bovine and the creation of the universe out of its various elements ".
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Bobo cosmogonic myths, wuro da fere, describe the creation of the world by Wuro and the ordering of his creations, which are placed in basic opposing pairs : man / spirits, male / female, village / bush, domesticated / wild, culture / nature, safety / danger, cold / hot, farmer / blacksmith.
