Cosmogonic Myth Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [10]

Genesis (1:11):

11. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

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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 again the creator of meaning verbally projects a proposal for phenomena to be created:

and	God	said		let	the earth	bring forth	grass and the fruit tree	upon the earth
1			"	2
	Sayer	Process: verbal		Process:	Actor	material: creative	Goal	Location

That is to say, the creation of phenomena is again construed as a linguistic construal of experience, made by the creator of meaning.