About This Book
The text offers a visionary cosmogony in which an eternal creator brings time and ordered worlds out of primordial light, water, and darkness; opposing personified forces of light and darkness become Jehovah and Satan. Divine electricity fashions minerals and dry land, and souls are formed and later given bodies to populate heaven and earth. Jehovah establishes a luminous temple and throne that sustain creation and shields life with righteousness, while Satan's envy gradually corrupts many souls until a celestial rebellion and a decree to expel the wicked. Interwoven are hymnic passages and poems that amplify themes of creation, fall, divine justice, and the struggle between radiance and shadow.
About the Author
You May Also Like
6 picks
"Gombo Zhèbes." Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs
by Lafcadio Hearn
"Out of the East": Reveries and Studies in New Japan
by Lafcadio Hearn
'Round the Year in Myth and Song
by Florence Holbrook
'Round the yule-log: Christmas in Norway
by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described / Adapted to Private Schools, High Schools and Academies
by Edward Sylvester Ellis
A Bakony (2. kötet)
by Károly Eötvös