creation story

English

Etymology

Compound of creation +‎ story, perhaps intended to avoid the negative connotations of myth (“false belief”).

Noun

creation story (plural creation stories)

  1. Synonym of creation myth
    • 1890, The Freethinker, page 203:
      ... Creation Story, a subject which, from the Christian point of view, is of the highest importance . This story stands at the very threshold of the Bible […]
    • 2005, John Mohawk, Iroquois Creation Story: John Arthur Gibson and J.N.B. Hewitt's Myth of the Earth Grasper:
      ... creation story has not been recounted in a public ceremony in any longhouse in all of Iroquoia for something over one hundred years . The story of the woman who fell from the sky and landed on Turtle's back , initiating the creation of […]
    • 2019 January 31, Avi ben Mordechai, COMING HOME: The Genesis Creation Story: of Hebraic Faith, Hope, and Love for Everyday Life, COMINGHOME, INC., →ISBN, page 100:
      ... creation story lessons are profound and deeply rooted in the spiritual realms of reality. To really grasp and appreciate the creation narrative, I am convinced that we must approach it like the blind and deaf Helen Keller, in need of a […]
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