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  1. Aug 2020
    1. In one such episode, two gods grow flowers in a contest to decide who will rule the human world. The deserving benevolent god grows the (better) blossom, but the other god steals it while the good god sleeps. The undeserving cheater thereby becomes the ruler of humanity and spreads evil into the world.

      This myth follows other creation myths in that there is good and evil. It seems that most creation views start good and evil enters. The question is who wins in the end.

    1. In all of these myths, the world was said to have emerged from an infinite, lifeless sea when the sun rose for the first time, in a distant period known as zp tpj (sometimes transcribed as Zep Tepi), "the first occasion"

      This quote can answer the question how the world started. In this myth, the world didn't start by a person, but by the sea. It also let's us know that there was a time when the sun didn't rise.

    1. Leviathan already figures in the Hebrew Bible as a metaphor for a powerful enemy,

      This idea of creation makes me wonder if there is still this creature. Has this creature always been. Is it still out there somewhere? Will it come again at the end of creation since it says it is a powerful enemy.

    1. magical seven-ringed cup, the Jām-e Jam which was filled with the elixir of immortality and allowed him to observe the universe.

      The is quote could answer the question of how we got here. It seems to say that the creator drank a drink that allowed him me but i guess it could it could answer the question

    1. "And the earth was formless and void..." The phrase "formless and void" is a translation of the Hebrew tohu wa-bohu, (Hebrew: תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ‎), chaos,

      **This is important because it lets us know that was a line when there was nothing . There was a beginning that took chaos and made it into something. It lets us know that form and order took place after there was chaos.

    1. What is the purpose of life? What is the purpose of one's life?

      Will I am muslim. Allah created us in order to worship him. To knowledge in order to understand our status in life. this is my purpose of my life :)