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- Legend of the origin of the world. All
- cultures have ancient stories of the creation
- of the Earth or its inhabitants. Often this
- involves the violent death of a primordial
- being from whose body everything then arises;
- the giant Ymir in Scandinavian mythology is
- an example. Marriage between heaven and earth
- is another common
- explanation, as in Greek mythology (Uranus
- and Gaia).
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