MYTHS  OF  CREATION

7.   Order Out Of Chaos

All in all, in every instance 
worldwide, we find: 
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 
& chaotic dissolution
of an immediately preceding Age — 
in what seemed to be 
an unending series
of dramatically punctuated
cosmic reversals & 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 :
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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 & untamed disorder,
               that over the course of time resettles into

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

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