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Creation myth
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:<span class="boilerplate seealso">''For scientific articles about the origins of the Earth, the Universe, and Life see: [[Formation and evolution of the Solar System]], [[Big Bang]], and [[Abiogenesis]] respectively.''</span>
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===Pirahã===

Perhaps unique among cultures, the [[Pirahã people]] of the [[Amazon rainforest]] seem to have no creation myth. They also possess no concept of [[time]], [[history]], [[mathematics]], and almost no 
[[art]].<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2006/mar/28/features11.g21 Why do we have creation myths? | From the Guardian | The Guardian<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Despite this, linguist [[Daniel Everett]] reports that the Pirahã have "the most complex verbal morphology I am aware of [and] are some of the brightest, pleasantest, most fun-loving people that I know." Everett suggests a [[Sapir–Whorf hypothesis]]-like cause for this, "Pirahã culture constrains communic(contracted; show full)[[pt:Cosmogonia]]
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