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Primordial Chaos in World Mythology
From Greek Chaos to Norse Ginnungagap to Babylonian Tiamat: how ancient cultures imagined the void before creation.
mythologycreation mythsChaos
Exploring the Formless and Void
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void..."
— Genesis 1:1-2 (KJV)
Recent writings on chaos, void, and creation
From Greek Chaos to Norse Ginnungagap to Babylonian Tiamat: how ancient cultures imagined the void before creation.
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Exploring concepts of emptiness and formlessness in Buddhist and Taoist philosophy and their parallels to tohu wa-bohu.