Narrating the Beginnings

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, Alberto Bernabé.  COSMOGONY IN PROGRESS. THE CREATION MYTHS FROM GVEDIC TO BRAHMANIC TEXTS, Julia M. Mendoza.EXPLAINING THE EMERGENCE OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA: THE SUMERIAN MYTH ENKI AND THE WORLD ORDER,  Barbara Böck. THE FACETS OF THE DIAMOND. NOTES ON ANCIENT EGYPTIAN COSMOGONIES, José Ramón Pérez-Accino. OF GODS AND MEN: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN COSMOGONY AND THE HEROIC AGE IN EARLY GREEK LEGENDARY HISTORY, Mary Bachvarova.EVIL IN GENESIS AND OTHER ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN CREATION STORIES, Mark S. Smith.THE EMERGENCE OF THE WORLD IN EARLY GREEK THEOGONIES FROM HESIOD TO ACUSILAUS, Marco Antonio Santamaría Álvarez. THE MYTH OF THE SUPREME CREATOR IN ARABIAN LANDS, Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala.VÖLUSPÁ, THE UNCERTAINTY OF NORSE CREATION MYTHS AND SOME BABYLONIAN PARALLELS, Teodoro Manrique Antón.THE CREATION OF THE WORLD ACCORDING TO LAKOTA SIOUX BELIEF, Friedrich Pöhl.CONCLUDING REMARKS, Sebastian Fink.