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  2. The Creation (Haydn) - Wikipedia

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    The Creation (German: Die Schöpfung) is an oratorio written in 1797 and 1798 by Joseph Haydn (Hob. XXI:2), and considered by many to be one of his masterpieces. The oratorio depicts and celebrates the creation of the world as narrated in the Book of Genesis. The libretto was written by Gottfried van Swieten.

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Cosmic Man - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese mythology, Kotoamatsukami refers to a group of primordial, genderless deities that emerged at the moment of the universe's creation. [citation needed] In Greek mythology, Phanes is a primordial, hermaphroditic deity who represents the first cosmic being, emerging from Chaos and embodying the generative principle of the universe. As ...

  7. Philosophical Inquiries into the Essence of Human Freedom

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    402 God brought forward order from chaos. 403 History is incomprehensible without a concept of a humanly suffering God. 406 Primal ground (Ungrund) is before all antitheses; groundlessness self-divides. 409 Evil is a parody. 412 Revelation and reason. 413 Paganism and Christianity.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Theogony - Wikipedia

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    In the Babylonian creation story Enûma Eliš the universe was in a formless state and is described as a watery chaos. From it emerged two primary gods, the male Apsu and female Tiamat, and a third deity who is the maker Mummu and his power for the progression of cosmogonic births to begin. [110]