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Myth in Human History
The Great Courses
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A Great Courses lecture series surveying myth across human cultures, looking at recurring themes such as creation myths (cosmic egg, emergence from depths, divine parents, creation from nothing). It is presented as a lecture course with an accompanying book.
The commenter calls it a great course that covered common themes in creation myths across cultures.
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I went through the "myth in human history" class/book from The Great Courses some years ago (great course!), iirc it mentioned a few common themes of creation myths: cosmic egg, emergence from depths, divine parents, ex nihilo, and "retrieval from the sea bottom".
I think any relation to actual science is accidental.