Cosmogonic Myth Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [3]

Genesis (1:3):

3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, this symbolism from Abrahamic mythology can be interpreted as further construing the genesis of construing experience as meaning through language.

Here the creator of meaning verbally projects a proposal for a phenomenon to exist:

and	God	said		let	there	be	light
1			"	2
	Sayer	Process: verbal		Process:		existential	Existent

and this results in the existence of the phenomenon:

and	there	was	light
		Process: existential	Existent

That is to say, the phenomenon is construed here as a linguistic construal of experience, made by the creator of meaning.