cosmic ocean
Space viewed aquatically
The cosmic ocean is a metaphor for the universe conceived as a vast, dark expanse in which celestial bodies float like islands or ships.
The image appears in ancient mythologies—many cultures imagined the sky as waters above the earth—and in modern science communication, particularly Carl Sagan's poetic descriptions of space exploration: We have waded out into the cosmic ocean.
- creation mythsTraditional origin-of-everything tales
- primordial watersOriginal formless ocean
- chaosComplete disorder and confusion
- nebulaeInterstellar gas clouds
- churningAgitated circular motion
abyss · universal consciousness · black holes · cosmogony · Brahma · infinity · Tiamat · great flood · oneness · womb · dark matter · gravitational waves · interconnectedness · void · depths · formless · galaxies · firmament
- originsbeginning, birth, creation, source, roots
- realmsrealm, kingdom, domain, Heaven, Hades
- Ancient Cosmologyworld tree, axis mundi, firmament, celestial sphere, primordial chaos
- Carl Saganbillions, Voyager, Cornell, extraordinary claims
- creation mythscosmogony, theogony, world egg, creation, primordial
- Hindu-Buddhist mythologyVishnu, Shiva, Brahma, Krishna, Rama
primordial/elemental nature
cosmic oceansolid ground
Stable surface beneath
terra firma · dry land · cosmic order · logos