To help you visualize and envision the creation stories more vividly, I have provided a photo gallery of photographs, images, and depictions relating to all three creation stories.
The Creation of the World (Book the First–Ovid)
A creature of more exalted kind/ Was wanting yet, and then was Man design’d (97-98)
Citations:
The Work: Prometheus creating man
Author: Hendrik Goltzius
Date: 1589
Link: http://www.spaightwoodgalleries.com/Pages/Goltzius_Hendrik_Metamorphoses.html
Description: In this particular engraving, Prometheus (right) forms man from “paste,” mixing the creation with “streams,” thus the “godlike image [was] cast” (105-106).
The golden age was first; when Man yet new,/No rile but uncorrupted reason knew:/And, with a native bent, did good pursue (113-115)
Citations
The Work: The Age of Gold
Author: Hendrik Goltzius
Date: 1589
Link: http://www.spaightwoodgalleries.com/Pages/Goltzius_Hendrik_Metamorphoses.html
Description: In this specific engraving, we discern the “uncorrupted” state and world of Man–safe and conscientious–an comprising “happy mortals,” sheer contentment, bliss, nourishment, and fecundity (115, 127).
Then summer, autumn, winter did appear:/And spring was but a season of the year./The sun his annual course obliquely made,/Good days contracted, and enlarg’d the bad (149-152)
Citations:
The Work: The Age of Silver
Author: Hendrik Goltzius
Date: 1589
Link: http://www.spaightwoodgalleries.com/Pages/Goltzius_Hendrik_Metamorphoses.html
Description: Following Saturn’s banishment to Hell, Jove assumes authority over the world, and thus, the appearance of seasons emerge, fostering both “sultry heats” in summer and winds “clogg’d with ice and snow” during the winter season (153-154).
To this came next in course, the brazen age:/A warlike offspring, prompt to bloody rage,/Not impious yet…(161-163)
Citations:
The Work: The Age of Bronze
Author: Hendrik Goltzius
Date: 1589
Link: http://www.spaightwoodgalleries.com/Pages/Goltzius_Hendrik_Metamorphoses.html
Description: This depiction mirrors the text, portraying an era of looming violence and bloodshed perpetrated by the new, “warlike offspring,” not yet immoral (162).
Death, and Life and Death (Kono People–Guinea)
Although the Kono people’s creation story does not have any artistic renditions and depictions of the tale, I decided to display photographs of the people and their culture.
Photograph of the Kono People
Citations:
Link: http://museorigins.net/the-creation/
Kono Mask
Citations:
Link: http://according-to-god.blogspot.com/2013/01/death-and-life-and-death-guinea.html
Kono female ceremonial dress
Citations:
Link: https://www.pinterest.com/aishamonique/guinea-conakry/
Genesis I-II (Standard King James Version)
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul (2.7)
Citation:
The Work: The Creation of Adam
Author: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Date: 1511
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Adam_na_restauratie.jpg
Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken./So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life (3.23-24)
Citation:
The Work: Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise
Author: Giuseppe Cesari
Date –
Link: http://www.oceansbridge.com/oil-paintings/product/69774/adamandeveexpelledfromparadise
And when the woman saw that the red was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat (3.6)
Citation:
The Work: Temptation of Adam and Eve
Author: Masolino
Date: 1425
Link: http://witcombe.sbc.edu/eve-women/masolino-adameve.html
Creation Stories of the World 