An origin belief is any story or explanation that describes the beginnings of humanity, earth, life, and the universe (cosmogony). Such beliefs can be derived from many different venues including scientific investigation, metaphysical speculation, or religious belief. As with any set of beliefs, opinions regarding the validity of particular origins beliefs differ —points of view on these subjects vary widely. Origin belief - Creation myths. Origins beliefs commonly refer to creation myths — mytho ...

Including:

• Origin belief - Creation myths
• Origin belief - Science-based beliefs
• Origin belief - Accepted mainstream scientific theories
• Origin belief - Beliefs grounded in philosophical naturalism
• Origin belief - Creation ex nihilo
• Origin belief - Religious creation beliefs
• Origin belief - Limits to the ontology of creation
• Origin belief - Creation within various belief systems
• Origin belief - Babylonia
• Origin belief - Buddhism
• Origin belief - China
• Origin belief - Christianity
• Origin belief - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Origin belief - Creek
• Origin belief - Egyptian
• Origin belief - Classical Greece
• Origin belief - Hinduism
• Origin belief - Hopi
• Origin belief - Hmong
• Origin belief - Inca
• Origin belief - Islam
• Origin belief - Japan
• Origin belief - Jainism
• Origin belief - Judaism
• Origin belief - Maya
• Origin belief - Māori
• Origin belief - Navajo
• Origin belief - Norse
• Origin belief - Polynesian
• Origin belief - Randomness
• Origin belief - Sami
• Origin belief - Surat Shabda Yoga
• Origin belief - Taoism
• Origin belief - Zen
• Origin belief - Zoroastrianism

Read more here: » Origin belief: Encyclopedia - Origin belief

See also:

Origin belief, Origin belief - Creation myths, Origin belief - Science-based beliefs, Origin belief - Mainstream scientific theories, Origin belief - Beliefs grounded in philosophical naturalism, Origin belief - Creation ex nihilo, Origin belief - Religious creation beliefs, Origin belief - Limits to the ontology of creation, Origin belief - Creation within various belief systems, Origin belief - Babylonian, Origin belief - Buddhist, Origin belief - Chinese, Origin belief - Christian, Origin belief - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Origin belief - Creek, Origin belief - Egyptian, Origin belief - Classical Greek, Origin belief - Hindu, Origin belief - Hopi, Origin belief - Hmong, Origin belief - Inca, Origin belief - Islam, Origin belief - Japan, Origin belief - Jainism, Origin belief - Judaism, Origin belief - Mayan, Origin belief - Māori, Origin belief - Navajo, Origin belief - Norse, Origin belief - Polynesian, Origin belief - Randomness, Origin belief - Sami, Origin belief - Surat Shabda Yoga, Origin belief - Taoism, Origin belief - Zen, Origin belief - Zoroastrianism

Read more here: » Origin belief: Encyclopedia II - Origin belief - Creation myths

Origins beliefs commonly refer to creation myths — mytho-religious stories which explain the beginnings of the universe as a deliberate act of "creation" by a supreme being. "Origin belief" may be generalized to include non-religious claims and theories based in contemporary science or philosophy—the Big Bang, origin of life, panspermia and theory of evolution fall into this category. The term creation myth may be seen as offensive when used to describe stories which are still believed today, as the term myth ...

See also:

Origin belief, Origin belief - Creation myths, Origin belief - Science-based beliefs, Origin belief - Accepted mainstream scientific theories, Origin belief - Beliefs grounded in philosophical naturalism, Origin belief - Creation ex nihilo, Origin belief - Religious creation beliefs, Origin belief - Limits to the ontology of creation, Origin belief - Creation within various belief systems, Origin belief - Babylonia, Origin belief - Buddhism, Origin belief - China, Origin belief - Christianity, Origin belief - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Origin belief - Creek, Origin belief - Egyptian, Origin belief - Classical Greece, Origin belief - Hinduism, Origin belief - Hopi, Origin belief - Hmong, Origin belief - Inca, Origin belief - Islam, Origin belief - Japan, Origin belief - Jainism, Origin belief - Judaism, Origin belief - Maya, Origin belief - Māori, Origin belief - Navajo, Origin belief - Norse, Origin belief - Polynesian, Origin belief - Randomness, Origin belief - Sami, Origin belief - Surat Shabda Yoga, Origin belief - Taoism, Origin belief - Zen, Origin belief - Zoroastrianism

Read more here: » Origin belief: Encyclopedia II - Origin belief - Creation myths

Creation Myths and The Story of Life

Three hundred years ago in the cold, rocky, wind swept recesses of the North Atlantic, our ancestors' way of life was in its twilight.

A steady insurgence from powerful tribes had driven our tiny clan to the verge of extinction. Our largely unconscious adoption of attractive filaments from these cultures had left us struggling for what remained of our identity. But was that such a tragedy? Would the world really be worse off if the Celts were lost into oblivion? Wouldn't it be better if we were all the same?

Read more here: » Creation Myths: Creation Myths and The Story of Life

Hinduism and Creation: The 24 Principles of Creation & Samkhya Yoga

According to the Bhagavad gita, the Purusha enters the Prakriti and manifests the entire creation. At the human level, the purusha is compared symbolically with a man and the Prakriti with a woman. At the microcosmic level a union between the two indeed leads to the creation of a new being, which can be compared to the Hiranyagarbha (the golden embryo) at the microcosmic level. 

Read more here: » Hinduism and Creation: The 24 Principles of Creation Samkhya Yoga

Spirituality and Science: Two Ways to Arrive at the Truth

Some of the greatest scientists have attributed their sparks of genius to spiritual inspiration. "I assert that cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research," said Albert Einstein.

Scientists today are striving to discover how creation came into being, and how human beings came to be. A state-of-the-art space telescope has been able to detect some of the earliest moments of the Big Bang. By picking up signals from several light years away, we are able to glimpse at the early universe, whose light is only now reaching us, billions of years later. Will we ever be able to discover the secret of creation?

Read more here: » Spirituality and Science: Two Ways to Arrive at the Truth

Science and Spirituality: An Islamic View of Creation & Life

According to Islamic tradition, life is God's creation - regardless of whether life was specially created or resulted from evolution. Evolution itself is a process of creation as admitted by Darwin in The Origin of Species.

Creation falls into four categories - inanimate matter, plants, animals and human beings. According to Islam, all four are separate creations. Among living things, a number of species co-exist, all having been created separately. There is doubtless some similarity in physical attributes; yet, each has a permanent, separate existence. There is no concept of a missing link in Islam.

Read more here: » Science and Spirituality: An Islamic View of Creation Life

The Cosmic Force And Shiv-Shakti

Before creation took place there was nothing but a pervading consciousness that had no name. Creation was the result of manifestation of this pervading consciousness.

The first form in which the consciousness manifested was Adi Shakti, Gayatri or power. From her emerged everything else. Once the universe was created there was a need for super forces or energies to look after the governance of the world. To perform this role Adi Shakti manifested herself into the trinity: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.

Read more here: » Shiv-Shakti: The Cosmic Force And Shiv-Shakti

Creative Math of the Origins of Universe

For the creation of anything three causes are required to be fulfilled: Material cause, instrumental cause and supporting cause. In Creation, Brahman is all of these three causes. He evolves Himself into Mulaprakriti or primordial matter.

Read more here: » Vedic Genesis: Creative Math of the Origins of Universe

Science and Spirituality: Symbiosis Between Science & Spirit

Some years ago, I called upon the great scientist Prof S Chandrasekhar in Chicago and asked him how seers of the Vedas and Upanishads had two astounding insights that have emerged in modern science only recently.

The first is the concept of anantakoti brahmanda , endless universes. The second is the concept of vast aeons of time through which creation passes, much like the ancient belief that a single day of Brahma is 4.32 million human years long, so that his one year corresponds roughly to the age of planet earth. When I suggested that perhaps this knowledge came to seers in enhanced states of consciousness, Prof Chandrasekhar seemed to agree.

Read more here: » Science and Spirituality: Symbiosis Between Science Spirit

Today is International Women's Day. Around the world, in conferences and debates, ways to 'improve' women's lot and empower them will be discussed. They will remain a view from the outside unless we find a way to tune in to the spirit of the eternal feminine, and rediscover the creatrix that lies reduced to a vestigial place in our psyche after centuries of neglect. Today would be a good day to begin a renewal of this ancient relationship with our innate, instinctual, feminine self.

(See also: Aghora, Faith and Belief, Spiritual Guidance, God and Religion, Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind and Soul)

Religion (see etymology below) —sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system—is commonly defined as belief concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine; and the moral codes, practices, values, institutions and rituals associated with such belief. In its broadest sense some have defined it as the sum total of answers given to explain humankind's relationship with the universe. In the course of the development of religion, it has taken ...

Including:

• Religion - Etymology
• Religion - Religion and science
• Religion - Philosophy and metaphysics
• Religion - Esotericism and mysticism
• Religion - Spirituality
• Religion - Myth
• Religion - Approaches to the study of individual religions
• Religion - Methods of studying religion subjectively in relation to one's own beliefs
• Religion - Methods of studying religion objectively in a scientific and religiously neutral fashion
• Religion - Development of religion
• Religion - Religion today
• Religion - Approaches to relating to the beliefs of others
• Religion - Exclusivism
• Religion - Inclusivism
• Religion - Pluralism
• Religion - Syncretism
• Religion - Universalism
• Religion - Systemization
• Religion - Religion and other approaches to forming beliefs about the nature of the universe
• Religion - Related philosophical stances
• Religion - Compare with

Read more here: » Religion: Encyclopedia - Religion

Creation is a doctrinal position in many religions which maintains that one or a group of gods or deities is responsible for creating the universe. Creationism affirms this belief, but the doctrinal belief is not necessarily synonymous with creationism. Creation theology - Judaism & Christianity. Mainstream Biblical scholarship maintains that the creation story found in Genesis 2 is the earlier of the two Genesis accounts. Filled with ancient and rich mythological imagery, it is believed that th ...

Including:

• Creation theology - Judaism & Christianity
• Creation theology - Islam
• Creation theology - Hinduism
• Creation theology - Resources

Read more here: » Creation theology: Encyclopedia - Creation theology

The Creator God is the divine being that created the omniverse, according to various traditions and faiths. Creator God - Abrahamic religions. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam teach that Creation is the origin of the totality of the omniverse by the action of God. Even more particularly, every type of existence is also owing to the act of creation by God. Among monotheists it has historically been most commonly believed that living things are the God's creations, and are not the result of a pr ...

Including:

• Creator God - Abrahamic religions
• Creator God - Christianity
• Creator God - Hinduism
• Creator God - Classical Greece

Read more here: » Creator God: Encyclopedia - Creator God

This article is about the Abrahamic belief; creationism can also refer to origin beliefs in general or, centuries earlier, to an alternative to traducianism. Creationism or creation theology is the belief that humans, life, the Earth, and the universe were created by a supreme being or deity's supernatural intervention. The intervention may be seen either as an act of creation from nothing (ex nihilo) ...

Including:

• Creationism - Overview
• Creationism - Political context
• Creationism - History of the concept of creation
• Creationism - Types of creationism
• Creationism - Jewish creationism
• Creationism - Christian God as absolute origin
• Creationism - Prevalence of creationism
• Creationism - United States
• Creationism - The western world outside the United States
• Creationism - Criticism of creationism
• Creationism - Scientific critique of creationism
• Creationism - The Christian critique of creationism
• Creationism - Creationism and naturalism

Read more here: » Creationism: Encyclopedia - Creationism

The word mythology (from the Greek μυϑολογία mythología, "storytelling" [1]) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use the supernatural to interpret natural events and to explain the nature of the universe and humanity. In modern usage, "mythology" is either the body of myths from a particular culture or religion (as in Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology or Norse mythology) or the ...

Including:

• Mythology - Definition
• Mythology - Religion and mythology
• Mythology - Classifications
• Mythology - Related concepts
• Mythology - Formation of myths
• Mythology - Myths as depictions of historical events
• Mythology - Other theories
• Mythology - Modern mythology
• Mythology - Myths by region
• Mythology - Africa
• Mythology - Asia non-Middle East
• Mythology - Australia and Oceania
• Mythology - Europe
• Mythology - Middle East
• Mythology - North America
• Mythology - South America and Mesoamerica
• Mythology - Mythological archetypes
• Mythology - Mythological creatures
• Mythology - Books on mythology

Read more here: » Mythology: Encyclopedia - Mythology

In Egyptian mythology, the Ogdoad are the eight deities worshipped in Hermopolis. They were arranged in four male-female pairs, with the males associated with frogs, and the females with snakes: Nu/Naunet, Amun/Amaunet, Kuk/Kauket, Huh/Hauhet. Apart from their gender, there was little to distinguish the male god in a pair from the female goddess; indeed, the names of the females are merely the female forms of the male name. Essentially, each pair represents the male and female aspect of one of four concepts, namely water (Nu/Naunet), air (Amun/Amunet), dark ...

Including:

• Ogdoad - Creation Myth

Read more here: » Ogdoad: Encyclopedia - Ogdoad

Abrahamic mythology is a term used in comparative mythology to refer to those aspects of religious belief and tradition common to the Abrahamic religions, as distinct from those of the "Pagan religions" from which most mainstream research in this field suggests they developed. Abrahamic mythology - Controversy of terminology. Some Abrahamic religionists reject the categorisation of their beliefs as mythology, arguing that the term connotes untruth and has more commonly been used to refer to beliefs t ...

Including:

• Abrahamic mythology - Controversy of terminology
• Abrahamic mythology - Abrahamic views
• Abrahamic mythology - Secular views
• Abrahamic mythology - Recent developments

Read more here: » Abrahamic mythology: Encyclopedia - Abrahamic mythology

History of creationism Creation in Genesis Types of creationism: Young Earth creationism - Creation science Old Earth creationism Omphalos creationism Theistic evolution Neo-Creationism Islamic creationism Intelligent design - Intelligent design movement Modern geocentrism Controversy: Creation vs. evolution ... in public education Associated articles Teach the Controversy Irreducible ...

Including:

• Creation-evolution controversy - Overview of the controversy
• Creation-evolution controversy - Common venues for debate
• Creation-evolution controversy - Conflicts inherent to the controversy
• Creation-evolution controversy - Defining evolution
• Creation-evolution controversy - False dichotomy
• Creation-evolution controversy - Conflation of science and religion
• Creation-evolution controversy - Accusations involving science
• Creation-evolution controversy - Theory vs. Fact
• Creation-evolution controversy - Evidence against evolution
• Creation-evolution controversy - Accusations of bias
• Creation-evolution controversy - Religion and Historical Scientists
• Creation-evolution controversy - Quote mining
• Creation-evolution controversy - Noteworthy participants in the controversy
• Creation-evolution controversy - Creationists
• Creation-evolution controversy - Their opposition
• Creation-evolution controversy - Ramifications of the controversy
• Creation-evolution controversy - Public education in the United States
• Creation-evolution controversy - Surveys of views in the United States
• Creation-evolution controversy - Survey of views in German speaking countries
• Creation-evolution controversy - Controversy in education world-wide
• Creation-evolution controversy - History
• Creation-evolution controversy - Footnotes

Read more here: » Creation-evolution controversy: Encyclopedia - Creation-evolution controversy

The author and poet Robert Graves' study of the nature of poetic myth-making, The White Goddess, first published in 1948, and revised, amended and enlarged in 1966, represents a tangential approach to the study of mythology from a decidedly idiosyncratic perspective. It proposed the existence of a European deity, the White Goddess of Birth, Love and Death, represented by the phases of the moon, who he argued lies behind the faces of the diverse goddesses of various European mythologies. In this work, Graves argued that "true po ...

Read more here: » The White Goddess: Encyclopedia - The White Goddess