Geomythology
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geomythology-198-182658
title:
Geomythology
text:
Geomythology is the study of oral and written traditions created
by pre-scientific cultures to account for, often in poetic or mythological imagery, geological events and phenomena such as earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, tsunamis, land formation, fossils, and natural features of the landscape. Dorothy Vitaliano, a geologist at Indiana University, coined the term in 1968. Oral traditions about nature are often expressed in mythological language and may contain genuine and perceptive natural knowl
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encyclopedia
description:
Study of descriptions of geological events in folklore, legend, and mythology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomythology
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2024-04-10T01:49:45Z
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