MYTHS  OF  CREATION

16.   Forthcoming
​Future Ages

The belief that additional
sequences of cosmological eras
preceding the current round of Ages
extended not only backward in time,
but also projected forward ongoingly 
into the future
was also considerably common 
among most of these same cosmovisions.

Common eschatological 
expectations of a forthcoming
cataclysmic end of this present world
often included:
— a universal conflagration 
w/ a final battle 
& defeat of the gods ; 
— the extinguishing of the sun, 
the destruction of the moon, 
& the shattering of the other planets;
— & the general expectation that
as this world goes down to destruction
so too will all that live upon it. 

Furthermore, these assertions of
a future catastrophe
were often paired w/ the familiar doctrine  
that after this long-anticipated
annihilation unfolds, 

there will be a new world born yet again,
where everything is to be remade 
anew once more.

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