Water, island and fecundity in comparative mythology

The general objective of 'Water, Island and Fecundity in Comparative Mythology' is to discover the correspondance between the elements affecting creation in the beginning: 'water, island and fecundity.' By discussing and analyzing various myths, epics, sacred writings and narrations around the world, the interrrelatedness among those aspects is to be examined. In relation to all birth symbols of fecundity and water forming a basis for the rise of patches of dry lands, a pattern of common deduction, 'the fecund characteristics of water giving rise to islands or earth an island', is to be reached. This work aims to examine the problem of creation on water, fecundity and earth level hence it is made up of three main sections; the first of which interrogates the fecund aspects of specific natural forms as mountains, mounds, plants and animals and feminine manifestation in symbols; the second discusses the fecund characteristics of 'water' functioning as a life-bearer and the last chapter questioning the steps, symbols and the function of 'island' as a primordial mound that is made up of a handful of slime, mud or sand which is to be found at the bottom of fecund water. The reseach hypothesis focuses on "the role that water plays as the fecund element in giving rise to an amount of mud, earth, or slime later expansing into an 'island'. The outcome of this work is to assemble all the major creation myths which assert that the primordial mound/mountain or that of a land had risen out of the primordial waters. Keywords: Water, Fecundity, Island, Cosmogony, Creation.