ASTRONOMY 9: HISTORY OF COSMOLOGY

Assignment #3

2000 January 24

Reading Assignment

Sproul, Primal Myths.

1. Please read the following Pacific myths before class on Wednesday 1/26:

• Wulamba: The Origin of the Aborigines
• Aranda: Myth of the Great Father
• Kakadu: Imberombera and Wuraka
• West Ceram: The Myth of Hainuwele
• Banks Islands: The Myth of Qat
• Marshall Islands: Long, Long, Long Ago
• Maiana Island: Making Things
• Maori: Four Maori Cosmologies and The Myth of Io
• Tahiti: Three Tahitian Cosmologies
• Hawaii: The Kumulipo

2. The following Asian myths should be read by Friday 1/28:

• Rig Veda X: The Sacrifice of Primal Man, In the Beginning
• Brahmanas: Creation from an Egg
• Chandogya Upanishad
• Kena Upanishad
• The Laws of Manu
• Jinasena: There is No Creator
• Buddha: How the World Evolved
• Creation out of Chaos
• Four Versions of the Myth of P'an Ku
• Tao Te Ching
• The Creation of the Universe
• Nature and Non-existence
• Ainu: In the Beginning the World Was Slush

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