Explore: Cosmogony In Literature

In the context of religious cosmogony, Chaos (Ancient Greek: χάος, romanized: kháos) refers to the division of reality outside or in contrast to the ordered

myth or cosmogonic myth is a type of cosmogony, a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it. While in popular

but much of the mythology is non-Islamic, and their cosmogonies apparently have many points in common with those of ancient Iranian religions. The name

Sanskrit literature is a broad term for all literature composed in Sanskrit. This includes texts composed in the earliest attested descendant of the Proto-Indo-Aryan

"Original Creation", is an important source of information on Zoroastrian cosmogony. Manushchihr's Dadestan-i Denig ("Religious Decisions") and Epistles the

rather, lived in what is now Guatemala. The Popol Vuh (Book of Counsel) was written in the Quiché language and incorporates two Mayan cosmogonical myths: the

There are numerous allusions in Greek literature – until after 3rd century BC – to a Cosmogony written by Mochus of Sidon in the 14th century BC. The likely

term Peruvian literature not only refers to literature produced in the independent Republic of Peru, but also to literature produced in the Viceroyalty

cosmology refers to the origins (cosmogony) and structure (cosmography) of the cosmos in Zoroastrianism. Zoroastrian literature describing cosmographical beliefs

and some important philosophers have expressed their philosophy in verse. The cosmogony of Hesiod and the De Rerum Natura of Lucretius are important philosophical