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The cosmic egg, world egg or mundane egg is a mythological motif found in the cosmogonies of many cultures and civilizations, including in Proto-Indo-European mythology. [1] Typically, there is an egg which, upon "hatching", either gives rise to the universe itself or gives rise to a primordial being who, in turn, creates the universe.
Phanes was a male god; in an original Orphic Hymn he is named as "Lord Priapos", [5] although others consider him androgynous. [ 1 ] Phanes was a deity of light and goodness, whose name meant "to bring light" or "to shine"; [ 6 ] [ 7 ] a first-born deity, he emerged from the abyss and gave birth to the universe. [ 7 ]
In Orphic theogonies, the Orphic Egg is a cosmic egg from which hatched the primordial hermaphroditic deity Phanes/Protogonus (variously equated also with Zeus, Pan, Metis, Eros, Erikepaios and Bromius), who in turn created the other gods. [26] The egg is often depicted with the serpent-like creature, Ananke, wound about it. Phanes is the ...
The new phoenix embalmed the ashes of the old phoenix in an egg made of myrrh and deposited it in the Egyptian city of Heliopolis ("the city of the sun" in Greek). (Greek mythology) World egg (also Cosmic Egg or Mundane Egg), found in the creation myths of many cultures and civilizations. The world egg is a beginning of some sort, and the ...
Chaos (Ancient Greek: χάος, romanized: Kháos) is the mythological void state preceding the creation of the universe (the cosmos) in ancient near eastern cosmology and early Greek cosmology. It can also refer to an early state of the cosmos constituted of nothing but undifferentiated and indistinguishable matter .
The concept of the Cosmic Egg, symbolizing the primordial state from which the universe arises, is also found in many Indo-European creation myths. [8] A similar depiction of the appearance of the universe before the act of creation is given in the Vedic, Germanic and, at least partly, in the Greek tradition. [9] [10]
This is an index of lists of mythological figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology. List of Greek deities; List of mortals in Greek mythology; List of Greek legendary creatures; List of minor Greek mythological figures; List of Trojan War characters; List of deified people in Greek mythology; List of Homeric characters
Early Greek cosmogonies may be related to earlier, Indo-European cosmogony. [30] The god-trio Zeus (king of the gods), Poseidon (god of the sea), and Hades (god of the netherworld) have been described as a "perfect" equivalent to trios of gods in ancient near eastern cosmologies, such as in the god-trio of Ugaritic cosmology, Baal, Yam, and Mot ...