primordial waters
Creation myth sea
Primordial waters are the formless waters that existed before creation in many mythologies and cosmologies.
In Genesis, God's spirit moves over the waters before separating land from sea.
Similar concepts appear across cultures—chaos preceding order, the undifferentiated deep from which the world emerges.
The phrase evokes origins, the raw material of existence before form or life: The universe began as primordial waters, dark and without shape.
- NunCloistered religious woman
- TiamatSumerian primordial sea goddess
- Enuma ElishBabylonian cosmogonic narrative
- abyssImmeasurably profound depth
- abiogenesisLife from inanimate matter
cosmic egg · unconscious mind · flood · chaos · potentiality · mud · Oceanus · liminality · creation myth · murk · transformation · primeval soup · archetype · hydrothermal vents · cosmogony · fathomless · renewal · void
primordial watersdry land
Earth above water
solid ground · firmament · terra firma · cosmos · the heavens
primordial waterssolid ground
Stable surface beneath
dry land · earth · rock · terra firma · solid rock