In the fourth chapter of Myth and Reality we are told of several creation and armageddon stories. The thing is they happen every year on December 31, 11:59:59, which is amazing because they see the end of the world simply being a new beginning of a year. This may be how our worlds would be if people actually followed through on their New Year’s Resolution but we rarely do, or at least I fail quickly every year.
To me the image of numerous civilizations celebrating the coming of a new, improved year on earth, is one of an amazing festival dedicated to their specific gods. Since each civilization had a god for every damned thing, we know they were pouring lots of 40’s out to their homies in the sky. In other words, they were getting intoxicated, yet staying somewhat sensible so they could perform their ritual dances and song around the Pirate Ship fire. They did this not to celebrate the destruction of an old world but simply because it had expired, most likely the emperor had too,but through this expiration a new world would be born, and likely had evolved just as we saw humans doing over a slow period.
I found the most interesting part of the chapter to be about settlements in India who believed, “there is no final End of the World properly speaking; there are only periods of varying lengths between the annihilation of one Universe and the appearance of another” (p.63). This draws my attention because we often here of the world coming to an end because of sin or an overpowering evil. This seems to me, the world is annihilated as it was before, to create a new evolved earth; in this period of limbo the world is building itself up to come back stronger. This may be through an ice age or maybe even a period of global warming; through the eyes of an ancient civilization we believe that the creator will provide for us and create an ideal world for us to live in.
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