cosmic battle
War among stars
A cosmic battle is a struggle of vast, universe-spanning significance—between forces like good and evil, light and darkness, order and chaos.
The term appears in religious and mythological contexts describing conflicts among gods or divine powers, and in science fiction depicting interstellar warfare.
More loosely, any momentous personal or ideological conflict can be framed as a cosmic battle: She saw her fight against corruption as a cosmic battle for the soul of the institution.
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- ArmageddonProphesied ultimate conflict
- final showdownDecisive concluding confrontation
- demonMalevolent supernatural being
- heaven and hellOpposing eternal destinations
Ragnarok · prophecy · epic clash · ultimate showdown · galaxy · deity · multiverse · dualism · pantheon · creation myth · existence · morality · celestial · alien · nebula · hero · divine intervention · eternal struggle
- Babylonian mythologyMarduk, Tiamat, Enuma Elish, Anu, creation myth
- Manichaeismdualism, elect, hearers, good and evil, gnosis
- Religious DualismGnosticism, Zoroastrianism, good and evil, light and darkness, Bogomilism
- ZoroastrianismZoroaster, Zarathustra, Zoroastrianism, Amesha Spentas, sacred fire
- Good and Evilgood, evil, good versus evil, virtue and vice, morality
- ancient religionsGreek religion, Zoroastrianism, paganism, mystery cults, Norse paganism
cosmic battleborder skirmish
Minor fight at boundary
turf war · skirmish · schoolyard fight · barroom brawl · spat