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Abstract
This dissertation aims at studying the creation accounts found in Book I of the Zulu text Indaba, My Children (1964) and the first ten books of the Egyptian text Al-Gibtāna (2011), contextualizing them interculturally among parallel creation myths. To this end, the researcher compares the present motifs and images found in both texts on the one hand, and the ones found in two of the most prominent creation myths on the other: the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, and the Babylonian creation myth known as the Enûma Eliš, in addition to the Islamic creation account told in different chapters of the Qurʾān. Through comparing the accounts of the creation of the world in Indaba, My Children, and Al-Gibtāna, the researcher emphasizes that such accounts that appear in both texts are the book of genesis of the Zulu people, and the ancient Egyptians, respectively. Despite the vast geographical stretch that separates the cultures producing these creation myths, specific motifs and features bring them together. The study has demonstrated that Indaba, My Children and Al-Gibtāna are two demythologized folkloric narratives that have
been read, both sociologically and historically, at different historical moments to counter the discourse of the colonizer