The primary feature of the Genesis account is a pre-existent bottomless sea (ala Thales).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thales
The second most prominent feature is the causure of the land emerging from that sea and being placed on mysterious foundations:
Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the **foundations of the earth** [dry land]? declare, if thou hast understanding.
Psalms 104:5 Who laid the **foundations of the earth** [dry land], that it should not be removed for ever.
Isaiah 51:13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth [dry lnad]; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
The third feature is the stretching out of a solid structure called "the sky" to support the waters above the dry land:
Genesis 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Genesis 1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
Genesis 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
And then we see that God would dwell in the sky, because he made it for a habitation for himself (and his deputies, "angels"):
Isaiah 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth [dry land, not the planet!], and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, **and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in**:
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