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Ginnungagap appears as the primordial void in the Norse creation account.The Gylfaginning states: . Ginnungagap, the Yawning Void ... which faced toward the northern quarter, became filled with heaviness, and masses of ice and rime, and from within, drizzling rain and gusts; but the southern part of the Yawning Void was lighted by those sparks and glowing masses which flew out of Múspellheim [6]
The void is infinite and provides the space in which the atoms can pack or scatter differently. The different possible packings and scatterings within the void make up the shifting outlines and bulk of the objects that organisms feel, see, eat, hear, smell, and taste.
'Overman') to create new values and meanings. In this way, the Void becomes a space of potential, where the destruction of old beliefs clears the way for the creation of new ones. Nietzsche's vision of the Void is thus both a challenge and an invitation to re-evaluate and re-create meaning in a world devoid of inherent purpose. [18]
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 .
Thus, the wuji is a limitless void, whereas the taiji is a limit in the sense that it is the beginning and the end of the world, a turning point. The wuji is the mechanism of both movement and quiescence; it is situated before the differentiation between movement and quiescence, metaphorically located in the space-time between the kun 坤 , or ...
In particular, the Shunya Sampadane texts present the ideas of Allama Prabhu in a form of dialogue, where shunya is that void and distinctions which a spiritual journey seeks to fill and eliminate. It is the described as a state of union of one's soul with the infinite Shiva, the state of blissful moksha. [127] [128]
major void: 5 23 h 48 m −24° 39′ 53.0 34.8 Aquarius/Sculptor: major void SRSS1 Void 3 (Sculptor Void) 6 3 h 56 m −20° 11′ 56.5 32.0 Eridanus: major void: 7 3 h 17 m −11° 40′ 77.2 25.5 Eridanus: major void: 8 23 h 20 m −12° 32′ 83.9 27.8 Aquarius: major void: 9 3 h 06 m −13° 47′ 114.6 39.0 Eridanus: major void: 10 0 h 26 ...
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 ...