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Creation Hymn & Night
How does the speaker personify Night and her sister in this verse?
Contrast the way creation is explained in "Creation Myth" and "When Grizzlies Walked Upright".
Which origin myth expresses greater certainty about it's subject?
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"Night" is praising the goddess of night, who is the sister of dawn. The author tells of the calmness and serene feeling that comes over the city as nighttime reveals itself.
The hymn is also a prayer...we know this by the verse:
"Ward off the she-wolf and the wolf; ward off the thief. O night full of waves, be easy for us to cross over."
Believe that there were many worlds before this one, and that once this one is destroyed, there will be many more to come.
They say that the world is created, maintained, and destroyed by their 3 lords Brahma, Shiva, and Visnu.
These 3 lords are thought to all have equal power over the world, which is why the trio are referred to as "The Supreme One".
The language used in this passage is very poetic and abstract.
The hymn does recognize supreme-beings, but questions how and when things came to be.
"Whence this creation has arisen-perhaps it formed itself, or perhaps it did not-the one who looks down on it, in the highest heaven, only he knows-or perhaps he does not know."
In "Creation Hymn", the speaker wonders about the origin of the universe and how it came to be, while "Night" 's speaker talks of nighttime fears. Both, however, address mysteries of nature, but at different angles.
The Rig Veda is a sacred Indo-Aryan collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns still being used in India.
There are 1028 hymns in the Rig Veda.
Formed the basis of Hindu religion.
The hymns were passed down through the ages by word of mouth long before they were actually recorded.
Purpose: Written to explain cosmology. (The creation and structure of the universe.)
-Collection of 1,028 hymns composed in Sanskrit by various authors at different times. Many of the hymns portray natural phenomena as godlike beings, but the poems do not set forth religious ideas in a systematic manner. The authors praise gods for their power and beauty and for the benefits they bring to humankind. They also invoke the gods for protection and sustenance. Overall, however, the poems' homage to the gods of nature sets a tone of devotion and piety.