The Age of Myths

There is no doubt that in those times, all civilisations considered that there was a connection between natural events and their myths of the Earth s creation. Thus most of the Egyptians—whichever gods they worshipped—shared the common belief that the creation of the Earth could be compared with the appearance of a mound of land from the primeval ocean, just as every year they experienced the re-emergence of the land from the receding Nile floods. 

A similar connection between the world around us and cosmology can be found in the land between the Tigris and Euphrates. The Earth was regarded as a flat disc, surrounded by a vast hollow space which was in turn surrounded by the firmament of heaven. In the Sumerian creation myth, heaven and Earth formed 

Rauchfuss, Chemical Evolution and the Origin of Life, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008 

In the Nordic creation myth, which can be found at the beginning of the Edda, we encounter Ginnungagap, a timeless, yawning void. It contains a type of supreme god, Fimbultyr, who willed the formation of Niflheim in the north, a cold, inhospitable land of fog, ice and darkness, and in the south Muspelheim (with light and fire). Sparks from Muspelheim flew onto the ice of Niflheim. This caused life to emerge, and the ice giant Ymir and the huge cow Audhumbla were formed. 

Young were the years when Ymir made his settlement, 

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Richard Slotkin, Regeneration through Violence The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 (Middletown Wesleyan University Press, 1973), and The Fatal Environment The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890 (Middletown Wesleyan University Press, 1985). See also Chapter 6 below. 

Gender cannot be tested either. As with age, there is a rumor that gender can be detected in urine, and is tested in medical insurance exams. This is another myth. It may be argued that a pregnancy test can be used to detect the gender of the urine provider, but the same test is used to detect prostate cancer in males. 

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