Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 12, 2025
He became the universe. In the Windward Isles he has a wife, Papa the rock = Papa, Earth, wife of Rangi, Heaven, in Maori mythology. But we may distinguish: in the Zuñi hymn we have the myth of the marriage of Heaven and Earth, but Heaven is not the Eternal, Awonawilona, who 'thought himself out into the void, before which, as in the Polynesian hymn, 'there was no sky.
The old fable of Ouranos and Gaia recurs in Zuñi as in Maori. I fail to see how Awonawilona could be developed out of the ghost of chief or conjurer. That in which all things potentially existed, yet who was more than all, is not the ghost of a conjurer or chief. He certainly is not due to missionary influence.
Thus, still confining ourselves to the American continent, we have the ancient hymns of the Zuñis, in no way Christianised, and never chanted in the presence of the Mexican Spanish, These hymns run thus: 'Before the beginning of the New Making, Awonawilona, the Maker and container of All, the All-Father, solely had being. He then evolved all things 'by thinking himself outward in space. Hegelian! but so are the dateless hymns of the Maoris, despite the savage mythology which intrudes into both sets of traditions.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking