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Literary notes about Genesis (AI summary)

The word Genesis is employed in literature as a multifaceted symbol for beginnings and creative processes. It serves not only to denote the literal beginning of events—such as the biblical creation narratives and pivotal family stories ([1], [2], [3])—but also to represent the emergence and transformation inherent in nature and culture ([4], [5], [6]). Authors use it as an allusion to foundational moments, whether in theological discourse ([7], [8]), mythic traditions ([9], [10]), or even abstract philosophical meditations on the genesis and evolution of ideas ([11], [12]). This layered usage emphasizes Genesis as both a historical and metaphorical starting point in literary works.
  1. Genesis Chapter 4 The history of Cain and Abel. 4:1.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  2. Genesis Chapter 29 Jacob serveth Laban seven years for Rachel: but is deceived with Lia: he afterwards marrieth Rachel.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  3. Genesis Chapter 6 Man's sin is the cause of the deluge.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  4. Genesis, however, is not a simple activity of Nature, but is compounded of alteration and of shaping .
    — from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
  5. Some traits of his mind and character may be traced back to his ancestors, but what doctrine of heredity can give us the genesis of his genius?
    — from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  6. Genesis (embryogeny) sub-divided into histogenesis and organogenesis.
    — from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
  7. On the saying in Genesis viii, 21: "The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth."
    — from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal
  8. Genesis Chapter 44 Joseph's contrivance to stop his brethren.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  9. Among the best examples of such genesis traditions are those recorded in the Walam Olum of the Delawares and Matthews’ Navaho Origin Legend.
    — from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney
  10. 1 The Cheyenne, Arapaho, and other plains tribes are known to have similar genesis myths.
    — from Myths of the Cherokee by James Mooney
  11. Gabriel Tarde, for example, has sought to explain, not the genesis, but the transmission and diffusion of these same cultural forms.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  12. All curiosity has thus a practical genesis.
    — from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

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