MYTHS  OF  CREATION

20.   Extended Cycles
​Of Recurrence

— Ultimately, there are no simple myths 
regarding the beginning of the world 
anywhere at all to be found. 

The world was everywhere 
customarily envisioned 
as a place perennially given 
to vast oscillations — 
both Above and Below. 

Indeed, this fundamental principle 
of regularly recurring oscillation
was held to function as a cosmic law
during the mythopoeic era, 
— both quantitatively & qualitatively 
integrating the microcosm 
of human ritual activity
w/ the ever-changing 
cyclical macrocosm of nature. 

By and large all these founding societies 
regarded these cosmological events to be
universal phenomena that had gone on 
since the dawn of life on Earth; 
— & because every mythic history 
more or less repeated itself 
from the beginning — 
w/ each catastrophe conferring 
a distinct eschatological rupture 
or breaking point between a previous 
cosmic order & a more recent cosmic order — 
& w/ each succeeding catastrophe
in this series of disjunctions
likewise further & further obscuring
earlier preceding catastrophes — 

— both the mythical actions of the gods 
& the historical deeds of humanity, as such, 
were seen as reciprocal representations 
of an eternal cosmogonic struggle, 
actively defending the world Order
against the destructive forces of Chaos; 

— in the grand context of which,
even the most disastrous 
& most commonly recalled 
catastrophes of history
were also regarded as but
seasonal rhythms unfolding
in even vaster cycles of
repetitious ruptures & renewals 
. . . in an utterly unimaginable
greater chain of being . . .