The context is the current social order, both materialist dispirited and hyper gullible. It manifests inside and outside the church. So, all of the above and then some.
I like your notion of metaphor as an approach to proximate truth. I also resonate with your hesitancy simply to transliterate. That can get kludgy in a hurry.
Thanks as well for your additional thoughts. I will continue to ponder and test.
I appreciate the conversation.
I think I'm still struggling with what you are trying to get across.
And actually, that might be a point to ponder and test. Think about what it is you're trying to articulate about creation. At some point, you have a thought of what creation is - God's work, or God starting the clock, or God intimately involved at every moment... a young earth, an old earth, an apparently young earth, an apparently old earth, or what have you. What you are trying to convey, I imagine, will have a lot to do with your word choice and where you're going with it.
You said
"I am trying to explore and trying to communicate that there may be contemporary language that does as well for our time as did the liturgical development of the creation narrative for the Babylonian exiled Israelites. "
And that's what keeps going through my head as well. But it's unclear as to the interpretation of that narrative. I'd argue there would be 1 or more intended meanings to the narrative. Like someone who has a more mythic understanding of Gen 1, and speak in terms that God wanted us to know we are corrupt, He made all things good, and salvation was in the future.
Also when I look at your quote I hear a blending the Babylonian creation myth alongside. I'm doubtful that's what you meant, but I see the Hebrew myth coming from the Babylonian (in short).