Cosmic Egg

The Beginning of Pre-Creation (Art from ???)

> The cosmic egg is a motif that is as old as humans' myth can go, dating back to civilizations that predated what we considered ancient. Numerous tales about it can be found across the world, from Greece to China to Japan... All of them featured a cosmic egg in some way or another. It seems that either that tale has some form of truth like that of the Great Flood, or that ancient people just really like their eggs.
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> **Carl Black.**

The **Cosmic Egg** is a motif found in the creation myths of many cultures and civilizations throughout the world.

## Overview

Typically, the cosmic egg is described as a beginning of some sort, and the universe or some primordial being comes into existence by "hatching" from the egg, sometimes lain on the primordial waters of the world. The Cosmic Egg is a metaphor of potentiality. It is the pre-creation held within chaos, waiting to become the cosmos. This duality, then, sets up a conflict found throughout world mythology, the duality of chaos and order, good and evil, light and dark, love and hate.

Some depictions make it that cosmic egg is said to contain an unborn universe, which takes millions or billions of years to develop as a whole. The cosmic egg is made of up of the purest form of creation and life, enough to where it is believed to contain the essence of God. In fact, many have attempted to acquire the egg in order to attain omnipotent power. It is also shown that cosmic eggs divide from a branch universe, a branch of the Tree of Life which is its own coursing flow of time and space, undergoing a form of what is dubbed as "meiosis" where the yet-to-be-born universe develops much like how diploid cells undergo DNA replication.

This process is also applied to Primordial beings as it is believed that the egg contains an unborn Primordial being. This shows that the Primordials can simply procreate by acquiring the necessary equation of life in order to create a new Primordial. The egg can contain even more than one Primordial. Upon full development and maturity within the egg, the parent Primordial sends the egg off, where it will soon hatch and eventually allow the newly born Primordials to roam free and become aspects of that particular universe itself when they finish its design.

Eggs symbolize the unification of two complementary principles (represented by the egg white and the yolk) from which life or existence, in its most fundamental philosophical sense, emerges. The idea of a cosmic egg was brought up by science in the 1930s, where the universe was believed to have originated from a gravitational singularity and expanded via a big bang to become the expanding universe.

## History

### First Egg

In the beginning, there was nothing, no earth, no matter, no wind, no life, no death, no time, not even void just The Word. But all of a sudden, from that nothing, came an egg, it is unknown whether it was an actual egg or just a metaphorical being called an egg, no one would be faulted for thinking that being or "egg" was the supreme being, even if only for that moment.

But eventually this egg hatched, and from that hatching came two of the most powerful beings within the multiverse; Ouroboros, the pre-existential embodiment of endlessness and infinity, and Vitriol, the pre-existential embodiment of hunger and oblivion. This made the once plane of non-existence into something, with God and other creator deities creating more and more until the universe as we know now exists.

### Seeds of Life

The next eggs were the seedlings of the Tree of Life, reminiscent of pollen that can be cultivated by the Angels or can be spread throughout the Garden from the winds. As they are the pollen of the Tree of Life, they behave like regular pollen where once it touches the Garden grass plains that surrounds the Tree or other cosmic plants for fertilization, creating a reality connected to the Tree of Life.

## Myths and Legends

One of the earliest known references to the cosmic egg is in Ancient Greek times, which was known as the Orphic Egg. The Orphic Egg in the Ancient Greek Orphic tradition is the cosmic egg from which hatched the primordial hermaphroditic deity Phanes/Protogonus (variously equated also with Zeus, Pan, Metis, Eros, Erikepaios and Bromius) who in turn created the other gods. The egg is often depicted with a serpent wound around it.

Within this egg typically resides a divine being who literally creates himself from nothing (AKA The ex-nihilo). This creator then goes on to form the material universe. This ‘ex nihilo’ creator either uses the material within the cosmic eggshell, or the substance of chaos to bring shape and order to the world. The tricky question is, however, what came first, the god or the egg. In some myths, this egg has a maker, often a woman, who brings the creator god into existence.

## Quotes

> I'll be honest with you, I have no idea how that... Egg... appeared in Void. It just appeared, out of nowhere.
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> **Life.**

> One egg's lower half transformed And became the earth below, And its upper half transmuted. And became the sky above; From the yolk, the sun was made, Light of day to shine upon us; From the white, the moon was formed, Light of night to gleam above us; All the colored brighter bits. Rose to be the stars of heaven. And the darker crumbs changed into. Clouds and cloudlets in the sky.
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> **Finnish mythology.**

## Trivia

* It is rumored that Vishnu tried to create his own cosmic egg which became Hiranyagarbha.
* It is believed that the Polytheistic Alliance's true mission is making a brand-new Cosmic Egg which when hatched would create a brand-new universe for the gods and other beings to make as their new home away from God and His avatars.