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What is the central theme of the story Tungkung Langit and Alunsina?
“Tungkung Langit and Alunsina” is ultimately a story about love and loss. At the heart of this classic, it aims to reconcile how there can be a benevolent god when there is so much suffering in the world. This story has a striking parallel to the creation story in Genesis.
What is the plot of Tungkung Langit and Alunsina?
Tungkung Langit was a loving, hard-working god. He wanted to impose order over the confused world. He decided to arrange the world so that the heavenly bodies would move regularly. On the other hand, Alunsina was a lazy, jealous, selfish goddess.
How is this different from the Bible story of creation about Tungkung Langit and Alunsina?
In both creation accounts, the world was created through love. In Tungkung Langit and Alusina myth of creation, it was Tungkung Langit love for Alusina that resulted in the creation of earth, whereas in the Genesis account of creation, God’s love for mankind led to creation of the world.
What is an exposition of a story?
It is important that readers know some of these details in order to understand a story. This is called the EXPOSITION. It is the background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story. The EXPOSITION will often have information about events that happened before the story began.
How are the 2 creation stories different?
The overlapping stories of Genesis 1 and 2 are contradictory but also complementary, with the first (the Priestly story) concerned with the creation of the entire cosmos while the second (the Yahwist story) focuses on man as moral agent and cultivator of his environment.
What are the similarities and differences between the two creation accounts in Genesis?
The main similarities between the two creation accounts are they both state that humans are made in the image of God (Genesis 1:27). They also show that God created a perfect world, “God saw that everything he had made, it was very good” (Genesis 1:31).