Germaine Arnaktauyok and Neil Christopher; Inhabit Media, 2024; 72 pages; $28.95. Every human society holds its own creation myths. For millennia, until science arrived with its factual but ...

Most fans of The Chronicles of Narnia are familiar with the same starting point. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe was the original book in the series and the first movie adapted in the 2000s ...

The watercolor above is an East African myth: Juok the Creator (shown twice) molding Egyptians from reddish brown clay and Southern Sudanese from the black earth. MacMillan says this image came faster ...

In the beginning, there was nothing. No Everglades, no cafecito, no chisme. Nada. And then, there was Miami. Every great civilization — from the Greeks to the Mayans — has a creation myth, a story ...

There is a patriarchal bent to many creation myths. In Christian teaching, God made Adam from dust and Eve from Adam’s rib; the woman is both a product of the man and the cause of his downfall—the ...

Over the 80 minutes of “Book of Mountains & Seas,” which had its U.S. premiere on Tuesday at St. Ann’s Warehouse, composer Huang Ruo and director-designer Basil Twist create the world and destroy it.

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