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The cosmos contains everything. Outside the cosmos is oblivion and beyond. This is the entirety of the cosmology defined on this site.

The origin or cosmogony of a universe is widely thought of as the Big Bang, but the origin of a cosmos or all of creation is linked to metaphysical or mythological methods such as:

  • the will or action of a supreme being or beings.
  • chaos, which is either a primordial state of chaotic matter (such as Hundun), or a formless void (such as Śūnyatā) or darkness out of which matter and primordial beings arose.
  • a cosmic egg before the start of time, which 'hatches' and either gives rise to the cosmos, or a primordial being who creates the cosmos.

List of cosmologies and their primordial entities

Cosmology of this site Cosmic entities are deities that exist outside of reality or beyond, beyond the concept of godliness.
Abrahamic Religions The Christian doctrine of the Trinity defines one God existing in three divine persons:

In Islam, Allah is the god seen as the creator and sustainer of the universe, who lives eternally and will eventually resurrect all humans. God is conceived as a perfect, singular, immortal, omnipotent, and omniscient god, completely infinite in all of his attributes.

Before the universe was created there was Ayin (nothingness) and then other deities manifested. Yahweh was the god and creator deity of Judaism. Adam Kadmon (the Cosmic Man) was the primeval or first man.

Buddhism In Buddhism, the Trikāya posits that a Buddha has three distinct "bodies", aspects, or ways of being, each representing a different facet of enlightenment. They are the Dharmakāya (the ultimate reality, the true nature of all things), the Sambhogakāya (the body of self-enjoyment, a blissful divine body with infinite forms and powers) and the Nirmāṇakāya (manifestation body, the body which appears in the everyday world and presents the semblance of a human body).

An enlightened or primordial Buddha can simultaneously exist in multiple realms and embody a spectrum of qualities and forms, while also seeming to appear in the world with a human body.

Maitreya is regarded as the future Buddha of this world, referred to as invincible or unconquerable and known as the "Lord of Love."

Chinese mythology In Chinese mythology, there is commonly an overlap between Chinese folk religion, Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. In the beginning, there was nothing and the universe was in a featureless, formless primordial state. This coalesced into a cosmic egg and within it, the perfectly opposed principles of yin and yang became balanced and Pangu emerged.
  • Pangu (the Cosmic Man) separated heaven and earth, and his body later became geographic features such as mountains and roaring water.
  • Nüwa was the creator of mankind, molding humans individually by hand with yellow clay. She was one of the Three Sovereigns.
  • Fuxi helped his wife Nüwa with creating humanity and invented music, hunting, fishing, domestication, cooking and writing. He was one of the Three Sovereigns.
  • Shennong was the "Divine Farmer" or "Divine Husband" and one of the Three Sovereigns.
  • Jingwei was a bird that filled the sea.
  • The Jade Emperor is one of the representations of the primordial god.
Egyptian mythology In Egyptian mythology, maat refers to the fundamental order of the universe, maintained by the pharaoh. The cosmic ocean was personified by the god Nun. Atum (the Cosmic Man) is the first god who emerged from the primordial waters of Nun and created the world. The god of earth was Geb and Nut was the goddess of the sky. The sun god Ra enlivens the world with his light.
Greek primordial deities In Greek mythology, these are the first generation of gods represented by personifications of places or abstract concepts.
  • Chaos was the first being to ever exist, an endless void of nothingness in which the universe sprang from. Phanes (the Cosmic Man) was a primordial deity who emerged from Chaos and embodied the universe.
  • Gaia was the second being; a mother earth figure and is the mother of the titans and the wife of Uranus.
  • Uranus is the personification of the sky and the husband of Gaia.
  • Tartarus is both a primordial deity and also a great abyss in which Day, Night, Sleep, and Death dwell.
  • Eros is the god of love.
  • Nyx is the goddess of night. Nyx's many children were also personifications of abstract concepts.

Gaia and Uranus gave birth to the Titans. The Titans Cronus and Rhea then gave birth to the Olympians who overthrew the Titans with the reign of Zeus.

Hinduism The Trimurti in Hinduism is the Indian Trinity, corresponding to Brahman, the fundamental energy of the universe.
  • Brahma - The Creator of the universe. He created himself in a golden embryo.
  • Vishnu - The Preserver who protects and transforms the universe.
  • Shiva - The Destroyer who transforms the universe.
Japanese mythology in Japanese mythology, creation arose from chaos, and eventually Heaven formed, called Takamagahara. The first three gods then appeared:
Korean mythology

There are many Korean creation narratives in which the universe is created with the division of heaven and earth, which were originally fused.

  • Hwanin is the King of Heaven. Hwanung, his son, instituted laws and moral codes and taught the humans various arts, medicine, and agriculture. Dangun, his son, was the legendary founder and first king of Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom.
  • Mago is the cosmic weaver, a goddess who weaves hemp
Roman deities The three most important Roman deities were:
  • Jupiter was the god of the sky and thunder, and king of the gods.
  • Mars was the god of war and the progenitor of the Romans (which is why the Mars symbol ♂, a shield and spear, is used to refer to the male sex). Venus was a Roman goddess of love, beauty, and fertility. The Venus symbol, ♀, a depiction of the hand-mirror of the goddess, refers to the female sex).
  • Quirinus or Hercules was the son of Jupiter.
Scandinavian mythology In Norse mythology, Ymir (the Cosmic Man) is the primeval giant whose body was the raw material for the creation of the cosmos, representing the initial state of chaos. After his death, the gods used his flesh to form the earth, his blood to create the seas, and his bones to make the mountains.

Elements of the cosmos are personified, such as the Sun (Sól, a goddess), the Moon (Máni, a god), and Earth (Jörð, a goddess). The dead are ferried away by valkyries to Odin's martial hall Valhalla. Cyclic destruction and rebirth of the world is Ragnarok. The god Odin is the ruler of Asgard and some of his sons are Thor, Loki and Baldr.

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