The creation story which is represented in the passage "ex nihilo earth diver world parents emergence" can be summed up as creation from nothing. In other words, the earth was created from nothing.
For the purposes of this discussion, the creation story is a cultural, traditional or religious story which describes the origins of the present world.
<span>Creation Ex Nihilo is a common creation story and is found in the creation stories from Ancient Egypt, the Bible and the Quran.</span>
Metaphors that compare humans to animals "anthropomorphize" them. Anthropomorphization is a literary device that gives human qualities to animals. These metaphors may help to highlight the similarities between animal natures and human nature, which illustrates how truly similar every living thing is to each other. Hope this helps.
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The word "protracted" means lasting longer than expected, or unusually long, so what protracted most clearly means based on the context of the excerpt is how the time period of celestial motion studies must have lasted unusually long.
