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. |
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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.
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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.
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. |
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. |
Roman deities | The three most important Roman deities were:
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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. |