One archaic theme that is radically different from most other religions is their view of the creation of the world. In Genesis, it is stated that God created heaven, Earth, and everything else we see. But, “For Religious man of archaic culture, the world is renewed annually; in other words, with each New Year it recovers its original sanctity that it possessed when it came from the Creator’s hands.”(pg 75). The New Year celebration …showed first 75 words of 698 total…

…showed last 75 words of 698 total…no way of moving from one existence to another. There would also be no form of communication with the world of gods. Sacred space acts as a link that functions as a connection between the present and the time of creation. “The sacred reveals absolute reality and at the same time makes orientation possible; hence it founds the world in the sense that it fixes the limits and establishes the order of the world.” (pg 30).