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Author:  childoffaith [ April 20th, 2011, 10:54 pm ]
Post subject:  Allegory for world's creation?
Question: how would you go about creation allegories? I mean, the whole point of an allegory is to make it similar but not quite, as to leave the reader searching for the Divine Truth, so to speak. So having the Creator speak it into existence, as it is in reality, wouldn't work. C.S. Lewis has an excellent allegory with Aslan singing the world into existence. So, that has been taken. What else could you do for it? It would have to be something vocal, or at least something having to do with words, would think. I was thinking the Creator could whisper the world into existence. Or could he think it into existence? What are your ideas on this?
Author:  Riniel Jasmina [ April 21st, 2011, 11:31 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Allegory for world's creation?
I wrote my creation (found in the sub forum Lor-Amar) as more of a parallel than an allegory but here are my thoughts. I would definitely say the words are what matter in the creation so, with the risk of looking a bit like Myst, you could have the world written. You don't have to use paper it could be like the hand on the wall in Daniel. God could just write "light" on the darkness and it could be there. This makes it a little different with the creation of man but he could still go and form man with his hands rather than write words to make him appear. Just a thought. :)
Author:  Aldara [ August 22nd, 2011, 1:58 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Allegory for world's creation?
I just finished writing my basic idea for the creation of my world. I started by having the world revealed. Where the Lord is in the darkness, there is light, and a barren rock comes into view. Then the Lord shapes it with his hands, filling valleys with water, raising the mountains, etc. He forms the peoples with his hands. I like the whispering idea; it's very dramatic.
Author:  Riniel Jasmina [ August 22nd, 2011, 2:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Allegory for world's creation?
Tolkien also made his world from song.
Author:  Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ August 23rd, 2011, 6:25 am ]
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Tolkien's creation story is simply awesome. :cool: It's in the first few chapters of the Silmarillion. :D

eru
Author:  Lady Pilgrim [ September 11th, 2011, 8:01 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Allegory for world's creation?
childoffaith wrote:
I would definitely say the words are what matter in the creation


Yes, this makes so much sense! So whether spoken, sung, WHISPERED, or written, words are ultimate in an allegory of creation. This seems all the more important because the Lord Jesus is the Word of God.
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