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People are formed from parasites on his body. • Emergence in which the progenitors reach the present world after passing through a series of other worlds or metamorphoses. The myth of the Navaho Indians of North America is of this type, as is the myth of their neighbors, the Hopi. The Hopi myth is particularly interesting, as it involves a female creation principle, Spider Woman. The Hopi continue to employ the primacy of matrilineal descent as a method of social organization. Other themes in creation myths have been found.
However, his views were questioned with concerns that demonstrated a lack of understanding of physical laws. Specifically, if the Earth is rotating on its axis, why don’t objects fly off, and why don’t flying creatures fall behind? Furthermore, if the Earth is revolving around the sun, then why doesn’t the same star seen six months later, when the Earth is on the other side of the sun, appear at a slightly different position? ”) The first two questions could not be answered authoritatively until the seventeenth century.
The moon continued in its sequence of phases. As the Earth continued to revolve, fall turned into winter and then into spring. Tulip bulbs that Susan planted the previous year came up and bloomed, even though she was not there to enjoy them. To Gary, the blooms were one more reminder of Susan. He was sad and felt a hole in his being. As a cultural Jew with views similar to Susan’s nonbelief, he nevertheless hosted a traditional grave-unveiling ceremony with her children within a year after she died, and lit a commemorative Yahrzeit candle on the anniversary of her death.