1. The opening of Ovid's Metamorphose sets the tone for the whole book. Its title "creation of the world" should tell you clearly where Ovid wants to start his book and how its going to start. He states the the world has not yet even been created yet, not even suspended in the air. With no light yet on earth, no wind, no water. He describes the earth as being a "lifeless lump". I think that he starts of the text or poem like this because he wants to show us that earth has not even been created yet and to start everything off the best way to do that is start with the creation of all of mankind and where we live. And theres no better way to do that as to describe the creation of Earth.
2. This text relates to Genesis a lot in multiple ways. In Genesis it starts of the poem or book by describing to us how the earth was created and how god created it. In Genesis the earth was created in 4 or 5 days I can't really remember. But in Ovid's Metamorphose they go a lot more into detail on how the earth is created and how it was before the earth was created and describe to us everything that the earth did not have yet. Ovid's Metamorphose goes into extreme detail on how the earth is before the beginning of earth and how it looked like and how its created. In Genesis its very to the point short and sweet way to create the Earth with very few steps on how to create it.
Questions: Is God and nature the same thing? "But God, or nature,...."
