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In some Sumerian accounts, she is a primordial being who copulates with An to produce a variety of plants. [401] An and Ki collectively were an object of worship in Umma and Lagash in the Ur III period, [353] but the evidence for worship of her is scarce and her name was sometimes written without the dingir sign denoting divinity. [402]
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The primordial image, or archetype, is a figure—be it a daemon, a human being, or a process—that constantly recurs in the course of history and appears wherever creative fantasy is freely expressed. Essentially, therefore, it is a mythological figure.
Nu is one of the eight deities of the Ogdoad representing ancient Egyptian primordial Chaos from which the primordial mound arose. Nun can be seen as the first of all the gods and the creator of reality and personification of the cosmos. Nun is also considered the god that will destroy existence and return everything to the Nun whence it came.
The apeiron is central to the cosmological theory created by Anaximander, a 6th-century BC pre-Socratic Greek philosopher whose work is mostly lost. From the few existing fragments, we learn that he believed the beginning or ultimate reality is eternal and infinite, or boundless (apeiron), subject to neither old age nor decay, which perpetually yields fresh materials from which everything we ...
The Cosmic Man archetype combines masculine and feminine or Anima and Animus and thus can be viewed as hermaphroditic or bisexual. [4] [5] Physical features include a primordial cosmic giant that goes through the process of individuation. The process can include dismemberment, plant or animal qualities, and a quaternary structure.
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In Orphic cosmogony Phanes / ˈ f eɪ ˌ n iː z / (Ancient Greek: Φάνης, romanized: Phánēs, genitive Φάνητος) or Protogonos / p r oʊ ˈ t ɒ ɡ ə n ə s / (Ancient Greek: Πρωτογόνος, romanized: Prōtogónos, lit.