ABSTRACT
The structure of the empirically presented series already shows us what can be expected from its indefinite or infinite continuation. This chapter amplifies the implications of this interpretation by a comparison with the ‘facts’ of ordinary human procreation as thought of by the Iqwaye. Every human being is created by two pre-existing individuals of opposite sexes: the genitor and genetrix. The Iqwaye mythopoeic solution to this problem is not to posit an eternally pre-existing creator, but to constitute the first creation as a quasi ‘zero point’ in which the functions of the genitor and genetrix in relation to progeny are fused into the corporeality of a single being. There is another set of mythic fragments which explicitly account for this sexual analogy of the cosmic differentiation. Briefly, in them the cosmogonic situation is as follows. Omalyce, the autogeneal being, creates other men.
