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  2. Creation myth - Wikipedia

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    The literal translation of the phrase ex nihilo is "from nothing" but in many creation myths the line is blurred whether the creative act would be better classified as a creation ex nihilo or creation from chaos. In ex nihilo creation myths, the potential and the substance of creation springs from within the creator. Such a creator may or may ...

  3. List of creation myths - Wikipedia

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    A creation myth is usually regarded by those who subscribe to it as conveying profound truths, though not necessarily in a historical or literal sense. They are commonly, though not always, considered cosmogonical myths , that is, they describe the ordering of the cosmos from a state of chaos or amorphousness.

  4. Chaos (cosmogony) - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  5. Creatio ex nihilo - Wikipedia

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    Creatio ex nihilo is the doctrine that all matter was created out of nothing by God in an initial or a beginning moment where the cosmos came into existence. [13] [14] It has been suggested that ex nihilo creation can also be found in creation stories from ancient Egypt (the Memphite Theology), [15] the Rig Veda (X:129, also known as Nasadiya Sukta), [16] and many animistic cultures in Africa ...

  6. On the Origin of the World - Wikipedia

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    The text starts with a critique of the commonly held belief that chaos existed before anything else. Instead, it asserts that something existed before chaos and that chaos was created from a shadow. This shadow was the result of a wish made by the likeness of Sophia, who flowed out of Pistis. The shadow gave birth to the powers of darkness and ...

  7. Seder hishtalshelus - Wikipedia

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    Each embodies different stages in the emergence of the ten sephiroth. Their progression corresponds to the archetypal realms of Tohu and Tikun (Chaos and Rectification) described in the new doctrines of Luria. Tohu caused the shattering of the sephirot vessels, the catastrophic exile in creation: Akudim: ten lights in one vessel - Stable Tohu [27]

  8. Cosmic ocean - Wikipedia

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    The act of creation is the establishment of an inhabitable space separate from the enveloping waters. [1] The cosmic ocean is the shape of the universe before creation. [2] The ocean is boundless, unordered, unorganized, amorphous, formless, dangerous, terrible. In some myths, its cacophony is noted, opposed to the ordered rhythm of the sea. [3]

  9. Greek primordial deities - Wikipedia

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    Hesiod's Theogony, (c. 700 BCE) which could be considered the "standard" creation myth of Greek mythology, [1] tells the story of the genesis of the gods. After invoking the Muses (II.1–116), Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose Chaos (Chasm); then came Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim" Tartarus (the Underworld), in ...