The Creation from Chaos and the Cosmic Egg of World Mythologies Summary

Comparison about mythological Stories About the Universe
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Comparison about mythological Stories About the Universe: The Creation from Chaos and the Cosmic Egg of World Mythologies
The stories about the universities are mysterious. No one has a precise idea about existence, not an organ of the universe. Many stories, including the religious ones, have been deployed to explain how the universe could have started. The universe and cosmic space are vast, mysterious, and may encompass many phenomena, such as stars, the sun, and everything hung in space. When one is talking about the universe, he or she is talking about anything. The universe is so expansive. The notion of universe vastness is shared by Achenbach (2019), who observed that the universe is unimaginably big, and astronomers and physicists are puzzled about the idea of revising cosmic history. It appears that there is concurrence in the idea of the universe that there is a thin line between myths and scientific knowledge. So much information is unknown. Instead, we are exposed to an iceberg of knowledge. The vastness is manifested in how stories of cosmology are strongly intertwined with community’s culture. Most mythic cosmology depicts an overarching sense of societal, cultural integration reflected in mythological theories such as the Creation from Chaos and Cosmic egg of the world mythologies. This lack of certainty and vastness of cosmology has been integrated into cultural setups to gain insights into the nature of the universe. This paper argues that mythical cosmology narratives reflect the nature and origin of the universe and influence perceptions, traditions, customs, and rituals, from the multicultural standpoint. This article depicts how cosmological narratives exist with culture thought metaphorical sense. This paper will discuss two mythological cosmic stories, i.e., the Creation from Chaos and Cosmic Egg of World Mythology, typical cosmic mythologies that explain the universe's origin.
Reason for Choosing these Two mythologies: The Creation from Chaos and the Cosmic Egg of World Mythologies
This paper picks the two mythological stories because it provides a critical purview of the universe's origin. These mythological stories possess core features that are often replicate in other cosmological mythologies. These mythological stories are relevant in contributing to discussions surrounding the mystery and origin of the universe. The nature of the universe is poorly understood and remains a subject of contestation and controversy. Despite both historic and ongoing discussions on the origin and nature of the universe, no consensus has been reached to explain the precise and undisputed origin of the universe.
Overview
Myths are highly common and familiar terminologies encountered in the course of learning. What is a myth or mythological story? According to Leeming, cosmological myths are narratives developed to explain natural phenomena and entrenched into cultural aspects (Jackson & Vos, 2014). The complexity of myths such as cosmological ones due to their vastness and uncertainty is better understood by the works of David Leeming. What qualifies an idea or something to be mythic? What is the relevance of mythic events and narratives in our lives? David Leeming provides a distinct and effective approach to mythology by emphasizing universal themes via myths of many cultures where cultural practices such as the right of passages capture cultural mythology elements. Leeming doesn’t dwell on competing ideologies and predicaments of the puzzling and intriguing region when it comes to understanding phenomenon such as the universe. Instead, he holds that spiritual truth and religion, like mythology, make for metaphorical rather than factual history (Leeming,2004).
More often, myths may be specific to given communities. Myths make up mythologies, as contextualized communally and culturally., However, they rarely make any sense in reality or demonstrate whether such a pattern of belief is possible. Despite their lack of touch with reality, myths are often culturally celebrated by communities and orally pass from generation to generation. Myths can be religiously encapsulated and preserved as sacred (Leeming,2010). Cosmic mythologies are not strictly scientific concepts, conclusions, nor observations. Creation from Chaos mythology describes the pre-universe era as formless, shapeless, disorganized, or chaotic expanse. However, there is controversy here. We can no longer strictly delineate mythologies from science. Both of these cultural spheres are marred by speculations and uncertainty. There are various cosmological theories, but the is a consensus that irrespective of the type of explanation, these theories shared a sense of culture. Whether it is a creation myth, chaos myth, Big Bang or egg theory, this explanation underpinning the existence of the universe are culturalized, and in most case, religionized. In addition. a cosmological explanation is myths, fiction, biblical or scientific fiction, and myths.
Cosmic Egg of World Mythology typically defines the world egg as a sort of universe beginning. The cosmic egg mythology is symbolic. The eggs could signify the unification of two principles from which life or existence solidifies in a philosophical sense.
Comparisons
Most cosmic mythological stories explaining the or of the universe have similarities. Equally, differences exist between and amongst various such fictitious stories. First, the two stories share a similar background, marked by disorganization or disorder. Their genesis is Chaos marked by formlessness and shapelessness, requiring reorganization. Hesiod, in his epic poem Theogony, describes “CHAOS” as (“yawning void”) marking the start of creation. It is out of disorganized elements that the universe was formed. Through the reorganization of disorganized elements, air, fire, water, and earth were reconstituted to form the universe. From Hesiod’s mythological Chaos theory of the universe emerged Ge, Night, Tartarus, Eros, and Erebus (Hanslmeier, 2020). In the beginning, Chaos, the first objects of existence, appeared spontaneously out the nothingness. The parthenogenic children of Chaos were Gaia (the Earth), Tartarus (the Underworld), Erebus (Darkness), and Nyx (Night), and Eros (Desire or sexual love). Thus, Chaos as a cosmological myth represented more than the mere beginning of the universe and a symbolic extent of society to include socio-cultural practices.
It is critical to note that Gaia, which is considered the earth, source of fertility and mother, emerges from Chaos. Based on this background, contemporary feminists highlight the relevance and importance of womanhood in the genesis of the universe, where a woman might be perceived as a deity. The role of womanhood as a symbol of fertility is deeply embedded in contemporary socialites where women may be culturally expected to play specific roles.
The Cosmic Egg mythology is considered critical in understanding the origin of the universe. Egyptian, Polynesian, and Babylonian communities are some of the societies that are conversant with the Cosmic Egg mythology. The Cosmic Egg mythology, unlike Chaos mythical theory, is more philosophical in explaining the origin of the universe. It encapsulates an embryonic motif emerging out of the darkness. This egg typically has a divine being. This deity creates himself from nothing or the ex-nihilo. This divine creator later emerges to create the material universe. This ‘ex nihilo’ creator deploys the material's content in the cosmic eggshell or the elements of Chaos to develop order and transform it into the universe. The initial state doesn’t embody an absolutely ‘nothing’, and the universe might have been created spontaneously from nothing or “Ex Nihilo” the concept of “Ex Nihilo” captures pre-existing true vacuum, or nothingness,” which means that the initial state pre-creation was not property-less (Lincoln & Wasser, 2013). The transition from nothingness to material universe is a controversial question. Thus, the Cosmic Egg mythology and the Chaos creation theory share almost similar...