Let there be light!
May. 8th, 2004 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatI got my 2004 Oziana (the fiction journal for the International Wizard of Oz Club) in the mail today. I'll probably have more to say on that after I've read it. I really should contribute something to Oziana. It's probably the only place where I actually stand a chance of being published.
I was reading some interesting stuff last night about the proposed multiple authorship of the Book of Genesis, the Black Sea flood that might have inspired the story of Noah (as well as many other flood stories from the area; I think there might have even been one involving Zeus), and proposed dates for the end of the world. For some reason, I find that kind of stuff very interesting. I've always been fascinated by mythology, and I think I have a special fondness for stories of the creation and the apocalypse.
Really, when you think about it, the Judeo-Christian creation myth is kind of dull. I mean, there's a lot of interesting stuff in Genesis, but the original creation of Earth is pretty much just God ordering stuff to happen. I guess it does a lot to show His omnipotence, but it's hardly of the same story quality as, say, Odin making the world out of a slain giant's corpse. Of course, maybe it's the simplicity and ambiguity of the Judeo-Chrisitian story that made it outlast the more ridiculous accounts of creation in the minds of the general public.
I was reading some interesting stuff last night about the proposed multiple authorship of the Book of Genesis, the Black Sea flood that might have inspired the story of Noah (as well as many other flood stories from the area; I think there might have even been one involving Zeus), and proposed dates for the end of the world. For some reason, I find that kind of stuff very interesting. I've always been fascinated by mythology, and I think I have a special fondness for stories of the creation and the apocalypse.
Really, when you think about it, the Judeo-Christian creation myth is kind of dull. I mean, there's a lot of interesting stuff in Genesis, but the original creation of Earth is pretty much just God ordering stuff to happen. I guess it does a lot to show His omnipotence, but it's hardly of the same story quality as, say, Odin making the world out of a slain giant's corpse. Of course, maybe it's the simplicity and ambiguity of the Judeo-Chrisitian story that made it outlast the more ridiculous accounts of creation in the minds of the general public.
