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Mythology

a creation myth in which an animal or being dives into primeval waters to bring up earth from which the world is made, which Dundes read psychoanalytically.

In mythology, earth-diver myth refers to a creation myth in which an animal or being dives into primeval waters to bring up earth from which the world is made, which Dundes read psychoanalytically. This meaning comes from Dundes (1962) in American Anthropologist.[1]

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References

Dundes, A. (1962). Earth‐Diver: Creation of the Mythopoeic Male. American Anthropologist, 64(5), 1032-1051. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1962.64.5.02a00110

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