ABSTRACT
Chapter 3, Becoming Geography—Creation Scapes, sets out the origins of human understanding of geography, where beliefs are devised to form associations with geography. The first section, Myth Making, reviews the storytelling of mythic landscapes of the Earth’s creation—pagan, biblical, spiritual, cultural, of gods and serpents—that helped societies formulate a human worldview of the Earth. Call to the Wild—Geography and Sacrifice looks at the intersection of physical geography and human ritual. Settlement—Geography of Fear begins the move into open ground and the construction of settlements, as well as the construction of enclosure, the separation of space into interior and exterior and the onset of paranoia in response to what lies outside. Humans asserted themselves by placing their existence at the centre of the world, which is one way of matching the world.
