Creation and Cosmology: A Historical and Comparative Inquiry

abstract aetiological Ahriman Ahura Mazdah Anatolian ancient ANET animals Avestan Babylonian became become Brahman Buddhism cause celestial centre century B.C. Christian concept of Deity cosmic order cosmic process cosmogony cosmology cosmos crea created creative Creator cult culture divine doctrine dualism Egypt élan vital elements emerged Enlil entity equated eternal ethical evil evolution existence functions Gnostic gods ground heaven and earth Hebrew Hellenic Hesiodic Hittite human Hurrian idea immanent interpretation Iranian Kumarbi Lord maintained manifest mankind Marduk Mesopotamian mind Mithras monistic mutation myth mythology natural selection Neo-Platonic organic origin Ormuzd Orphic pantheistic personified phenomenal philosophic Plato primeval primordial principle reason regarded Religion represented ritual soul species speculation spirit Stoic story struggle Sumerian supreme symbol Teshub texts theistic Theogony things thought Tiamat tion transcendent Ultimate Reality unity universe Upanishads Varuna Vedic waters Weather-god Whitehead Yahweh Yasna Zeus Zurvan