The Legend of Creation
Legend of CreationLegend of Creation after Berosus and Damascus
You had one corpse, but two minds; one man, the other a wife; and also in their different bodies, both masculine and feminine. Others were seen with the goat's hindquarters and horn, some had horse's foot, while others combined the hindquarters of a horseman with the bodies of a man whose form resembled that of a hippopotamus centaur.
There were also raised steers with the human head, and four -bodied hounds ending in their limb with the fish's tail; the horse also with the dogs' head; humans and other animal, with the horses' head and body and the fish's tail. To put it briefly, there were beings in which the members of each animal type were united.
There are also fish, snakes, rodents, reptiles, snakes, and other mammoth creatures that gave each other the form and the face. "In the Chaldean THALATTH tongue, the man who headed them was a lady called OMUROCA, the ocean in Greek THALASSA, but also the moon. And all things that were in this circumstance, Belus came and divided the wife; and of one half of her he shaped the ground and of the other half the heaven; and at the same the beasts in her he ruined.
"For the whole cosmos, which is made of humidity, and the beasts that are produced therein, the above-mentioned Godhead took off its own mind; whereupon the other deities merged the outpouring of the bleeding with the ground; and from then on men were made.
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The creation legend (or creation story) is a kind of culturally, traditionally or religially created legend that depicts the early beginnings of the modern age. Created is the most frequent type of legend that usually develops first in verbal tradition and can be found throughout the entire population. The creation legend is usually considered by those who sign it as a deep truth, though not necessarily in the historic or verbal meaning.
It is in legend that an artifical legend is made by the author of a fictional story or other. There are also creation myths: Leeming, David Adams; Leeming, Margaret Adams (1994). Encyclopaedia of Creation Myth (2nd edition). Leeming, David Adams; Leeming, Margaret Adams (2009). An Oxford Reference Online ed. dictionary of creation myth. The Oxford University Press.