Funnily enough, I've just read a paper on water cosmogonies, comparing a bunch of Christian, Islamic and earlier accounts of the creation of the land from water, which involved a bird, angel or other agent diving into the primordial waters to retrieve the "seed of land." It was all new to me, but perhaps not to you.
I'm delighted by stories of godlike beings borrowing heavenly shears - to trim the hedgerows that surround their Elysian field? Or to keep the box short in their quadripartite Paradeisos?
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Funnily enough, I've just read a paper on water cosmogonies, comparing a bunch of Christian, Islamic and earlier accounts of the creation of the land from water, which involved a bird, angel or other agent diving into the primordial waters to retrieve the "seed of land." It was all new to me, but perhaps not to you.
I'm delighted by stories of godlike beings borrowing heavenly shears - to trim the hedgerows that surround their Elysian field? Or to keep the box short in their quadripartite Paradeisos?