primordial chaos
Before creation's order
Primordial chaos is the formless, disordered state imagined to exist before the creation of the universe.
In mythology and cosmology, it's the void or undifferentiated mass from which gods, matter, and order emerged: The world arose from primordial chaos.
The phrase appears in discussions of ancient creation myths and sometimes metaphorically for any state of complete disorder preceding organization.
- cosmic eggMythic universe seed
- GinnungagapNorse primordial chasm
- TiamatSumerian primordial sea goddess
- abyssImmeasurably profound depth
- cosmogonyStudy of universal origins
void · creation myth · Nun · entropy · first principle · Tartarus · cosmic inflation · world tree · genesis · ex nihilo · Erebus · deep · unformed · liminality · flux · waters · infinite · yawning
- originsbeginning, birth, creation, source, roots
- realmsrealm, kingdom, domain, Heaven, Hades
- Cosmologiesmultiverse, geocentric model, heliocentric model, expanding universe, Ptolemaic system
- Japanese mythologyAmaterasu, kami, sun goddess, storm god, creation myth
- TaoismTao, Taoism, Daoism, Laozi, Lao Tzu
- Ancient Cosmologycosmic egg, cosmic ocean, world tree, axis mundi, firmament
primordial chaoscosmos
Orderly totality of existence
cosmic order · order · harmony · structure · logos
primordial chaosfinal order
Conclusive authoritative instruction
telos · end state · eternal rest · new creation · heat death
primordial chaoslogos
Brand identification symbols
demiurge · intelligent design · first cause · nous · Brahman