Chaos

Yet in the Timaeus he had himself allowed that God made the world out of pre-existing materials: in the Statesman he says that there were seeds of evil in the world arising out of the remains of a former chaos which could not be got rid of; and even in the Tenth Book of the Laws he has admitted that there are two souls, a good and evil.

He no longer, like Anaxagoras, supposes mind to be introduced at a certain time into the world and to give order to a pre-existing chaos, but to be prior to the chaos, everlasting and evermoving, and the source of order and intelligence in all things.

The Greeks called it Chaos.

Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundations of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest among the deathless gods…

On A genealogy of the gods Chaos is the yawning void at the beginning of everything, and from Chaos come Erebus and Nyx, who in turn produce Aether and Hemera, brightness and day.

On Uranus - The primordial Age the cosmos is a swirling chaos of raw energy, and out of it comes Uranus, the sky, who covers Gaia.

When in the height heaven was not named,And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name,And the primeval Apsu, who begat them,And chaos, Tiamut, the mother of them bothTheir waters were mingled together,

On Enuma Elish: Tablet I the epic is the story of Marduk's victory over the forces of chaos and the order he sets up at the creation of the world.

On Hea/Ea, Lord of the Earth and Guardian of the Apsu it is Ea who first defeats Apsu, the primal waters of chaos.

On Nu/Nun Nu is the primordial watery abyss that existed before creation, one of the eight deities of the Ogdoad, and the chaos from which the primordial mound arose and the sun god Ra was born.

On Pangu Creation Story the universe begins as a featureless, formless primordial state known as chaos, which coalesces into a cosmic egg over some 18,000 years.

On In the beginning I set short versions of this side by side: before heaven and earth chaos reigned in silence in Japan, the Dao was formless in China, and in the Orphic version Nyx laid the cosmic egg out of eternal Chaos.

On The Bumba Creation Myth of the Kuba there is only water before creation, a state of chaos and nothingness.

On Amma and Yurugu the Dogon creator Amma shapes the cosmos from primordial chaos, and his first attempt is disrupted by disorder before balance is reached.

Chaos does not disappear once the world exists.

On The world's beginnings Set stands for chaos and destruction against Osiris as order, with Horus as the force that restores balance.

On The Origin of the World the Gnostic text speaks of the seven authorities of chaos, and of a great shaking at the end of the age that brings down the powers of chaos.

On Mesopotamian Creation Myths Enki assigns the gods their tasks precisely so the world is well managed and does not slide back into chaos.

For every page I tagged with Chaos, see the Chaos tag archive.

Lugh stands as a model of complete competence: the god who masters every art, enforces just contracts, defeats chaos, and secures the harvest.

OAHSPE has strong pre-flood parallels: angels/ethereans (“sons of God” type beings) descending and mixing with early earth beings (Asu/proto-humans), producing new races, leading to corruption, drujas (dark spirits), false gods causing chaos, and eventual floods/sinking of lands (e.g., Whaga/Pan).

And as such, there will be no memory of the chaos and greed that you register currently within the Earth’s status quo.

He willingly chose this path, acting as a beacon, turning others back toward the light by serving as a stop to the descent into chaos.

They prevent the negative energy from descending further into chaos.

This island setting may deliberately echo ancient Egyptian creation myths of the “primeval mound” rising from the Waters of Chaos.

No one is happy, and it’s not just us —there’s chaos everywhere.

His actions create chaos in India, opposing Faithist principles and delaying spiritual progress.

His actions disrupt spiritual order in India, contributing to widespread chaos and false doctrines.

Many such are slain in war, or in desperate madness, are born into spirit life in chaos.

Sitchin connected the biblical account of creation to the Sumerian epic, suggesting that “Tohu va’vohu” (formless and void) referred to chaos caused by a celestial event, possibly linked to the destruction of the planet Tiamat.

Transition: The younger gods, led by Marduk, fought and defeated Tiamat and Apsu, who represented chaos.

They buried many Giants under volcanoes, confirming civilized rule over primal chaos.

In Norse mythology, the Aesir gods, among them Odin and Thor, fought an ongoing conflict with the Jotunn (giants) of Jotunheim, who stand for chaos and the wild forces of nature.

In Irish mythology, the Fomorians, monstrous sea raiders and beings of chaos, clashed again and again with the Tuatha Dé Danann, the divine invaders of Ireland.

Coming from chaos, it became my comfort zone.

In my teens and 20s, I carried chaos everywhere.

Great awakening requires passing through chaos like birth pains.

behold the king!3. And Jesus spoke a parable; he said, A king had vast domains; his people all were kin, and lived in peace.4. Now, after many years the king said to his people, Take these lands and all I have; enhance their values; rule yourselves, and live in peace.5. And then the people formed their states; selected governors and petty kings.6. But pride, ambition, selfish greed, and base ingratitude grew fast, and kings began to war.7. They wrote in all their statute books that might is right; and then the strong destroyed the weak, and chaos reigned through all the vast domain.8. A long time passed, and then the king looked out on his domain.

The essence of the body cannot be quickened by the Holy Breath until the fixed is solved; the body must disintegrate, and this is death.39. And then upon these pliant substances God breathes, just as he breathed upon the chaos of the deep when worlds were formed,40. And life springs forth from death; the carnal form is changed to form divine.41. The will of man makes possible the action of the Holy Breath.

They are losing control of the planet, so they are going back to their prime portal in the Middle East, where their nest is located underneath the ground, to create fear and chaos.

Each one of these billions of portals, gateways and corridors function with great mathematical accuracy so that chaos does not occur.

The current owners' food source of fear, anxiety, chaos, hunger, and despondency must be removed.

The speaker connects these modern events to historical narratives, suggesting a continuity of chaos.

For example: It is possible that high rates of new information generated chaos, imbalance and serious questions about human development in recent years of scientific advancement, social or philosophical.

Sons of the primordial being Bor, they slay the giant Ymir, the embodiment of chaos.

Later, Trito must prove himself by battling a monstrous serpent, a symbol of cosmic conflict between order and chaos.

Some scholars believe these were ritual endings, a symbolic sacrifice of shelter to mark the turning of the year, a kind of controlled chaos to keep real chaos at bay.

Associated with chaos, destruction, and conflict.

The poem’s 250-page scope suggests a gradual descent into chaos, not a sudden collapse.

They came after the Anunnaki's chaos, declaring themselves messengers from fifth-dimension and sixth-dimension.

They came after the Anunnaki's chaos, declaring themselves messengers from fifth- and sixth-dimensional realms.

Oahspe does not provide extensive personal traits for Noe (such as detailed humility or courage narratives), but the broader prophet archetype in the text aligns with obedience to Jehovih, wisdom in following angelic instructions, and leadership in preserving the Faithist way amid chaos.