·4 min
Primordial Chaos in World Mythology
From Greek Chaos to Norse Ginnungagap to Babylonian Tiamat: how ancient cultures imagined the void before creation.
mythologycreation mythsChaos
תֹ֙הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ
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)
Latest Explorations
Recent writings on chaos, void, and creation
·3 min
Chaos in Music: From Silence to Stochastic Sound
How 20th-century composers embraced randomness, silence, and mathematical chaos to revolutionize musical creation.
musicJohn CageXenakis
·2 min
Quantum Chaos: Order from the Void
How quantum mechanics reveals the creative potential hidden within apparent randomness and uncertainty.
quantumphysicschaos theory
·2 min
The Void in Eastern Thought
Exploring concepts of emptiness and formlessness in Buddhist and Taoist philosophy and their parallels to tohu wa-bohu.
BuddhismTaoismemptiness