AT-0474
Creation Stories
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Comparative hypothesis (debated): [C7] E. J. Michael Witzel, The Origins of the World’s Mythologies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), ISBN 978-0-19-536746-1. Use as an argument to assess, not a source of consensus fact.
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Creation Stories
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Whether a parallel reflects contact, borrowing, or independent recurrence requires source-specific evidence.
Contact and borrowing explain some parallels; independent recurrence may explain others.
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Composition, redaction, genre, and cross-cultural motif reconstruction must be evaluated source by source.
Composition dates, redaction, genre, motif coding, and deep-time reconstruction remain source-specific questions.
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Comparative hypothesis (debated): [C7] E. J. Michael Witzel, The Origins of the World’s Mythologies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), ISBN 978-0-19-536746-1. Use as an argument to assess, not a source of consensus fact.