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  1. Aug 2020
    1. These include a creation myth and a vision of afterlife, which Islam shares with the other Abrahamic religions, as well as the distinctively Islamic story of the Kaaba.

      Islam has command beliefs with other religions like Abrahamic religions. and they believe in the after life like another religions like Christian. and they think when you die you go to a higher place.

    1. Ancient Egyptian creation myths are the ancient Egyptian accounts of the creation of the world. The Pyramid Texts, tomb wall decorations and writings, dating back to the Old Kingdom (2780–2250 BC) have given us most of our information regarding early Egyptian creation myths.

      A lot of there writing gave us information about them. Also it gives us information about many of there myths which where written on the tomb walls and the writing is called pyramid text. And how they think the world came to be created.

    1. Later Jewish sources describe Leviathan as a dragon who lives over the sources of the Deep and who, along with the male land-monster Behemoth, will be served up to the righteous at the end of time.

      This creature is important to the Jewish people in a bad way. Because it may be the end of time for them and that god is coming. Again but god didn't make many of the sea monsters.

    1. One day the Raven became so bored with bird land that he flew away, carrying a stone in his beak. When the Raven became tired of carrying the stone and dropped it, the stone fell into the ocean and expanded until it formed the firmament on which humans now live

      This quote shows how people believe how the the ravens helped the world by making it after he dropped his stone witch made the land that people walk on today

    1. A motif of father-against-son conflict was repeated when Cronus was confronted by his son, Zeus. Because Cronus had betrayed his father, he feared that his offspring would do the same, and so each time Rhea gave birth, he snatched up the child and ate it. Rhea hated this and tricked him by hiding Zeus and wrapping a stone in a baby's blanket, which Cronus ate. When Zeus was full grown, he fed Cronus a drugged drink which caused him to vomit, throwing up Rhea's other children, including Poseidon, Hades, Hestia, Demeter, and Hera, and the stone, which had been sitting in Cronus's stomach all this time. Zeus then challenged Cronus to war for the kingship of the gods.

      Cronus fear of losing power are significant to this quote. Because his fear made his such a coward that he had to eat his own children to stay in power.but his wife who thought who knew this we cruel tricked him and saved one of the babies and the one she saved killed Cronus.