MYTHS  OF  CREATION

7.   Order Out Of Chaos

All in all, in every instance worldwide, we find that our antique forebears’ Myths of Creation were also fundamentally Myths of Destruction.

Taken together as a whole, their homespun histories about the new beginnings of things fitfully falling into place were also nostalgic elegies recounting the fateful doom of prior things now fallen out of place. 

In their once longstanding mindset, the birth of a new World Age never came out of nothing, but was always borne forth out of the spoiled degeneration and chaotic dissolution of an immediately preceding Age — in what seemed to be an unending series of dramatically punctuated cosmic reversals and renewals, stretching back deep into time immemorial . . . 

This means that, in considering any portion of anyone’s cosmogonic mythology in particular in the following survey, we are specifically looking at THREE principal factors we find repeatedly embedded in their narrative accounts :

                       
1:            An older cosmic order or World Age which previously prevailed for a given segment
               of time;

2:            A catastrophic ‘Breaking point’ or ‘Boundary marker’ event that disrupts the
               foregoing Age, thereby inducing a dim interregnum of destructive chaos and                           untamed disorder, that over the course of time resettles into

3:            A newer cosmic order or World Age with its own unique set of distinct rhythms and
​               dynamics freshly recomposed out of the old order’s dissipated components. 

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