World egg

The world egg is different in creation say the egg from which the world has emerged in the form of a Allgottes. It appears in the origin of the world legends of the Indians, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks and other peoples and apparently belongs to the universal human myths treasure.

Hinduism

The "Law of Manu " ( the first Indian legislature to see Manusmriti ) begins with a creation myth: "He ( Prajapati ) had to let emerge the desire beings of all kinds from his own body. To this end, he created by a mere thought of the water and put into it his seed. The seed became a golden egg, as bright as the sun, and in this egg he himself was born as Brahman, the Creator of the world ... The Divine lived for a year in this egg, then he divided it into two halves power of his thought and from the two halves he formed heaven and earth ... As he shared his own body, he was half male and half female ... "

Zoroastrianism

Plutarch is the doctrine of the Persians on the origin of the world again. Then the god of light, Ahura Mazda created the stars along with 30 good gods and put them in an egg. But the God of Darkness, Ahriman also created many evil gods who pierced the egg on all sides and slipped into it, " which was evil mixed with the good and still is. But will come a fated time, where Ahriman will, completely destroyed by pestilence and famine, which he himself brought about and disappear and the earth is flat and smooth, while a single life, a single state and a single language all blissful people embrace ". Although it is not explicitly stated, but one has the impression that the god of light and the god of darkness both sit with the world egg. Both are sons of God Zurvan akarana, the " God of endless time," the very special with the world egg apparently associated as Brahman and as Amun and Protogonos.

Egypt

According to the teachings of the Egyptians (where there were several different creation stories in ancient Egypt ) the world went from a goose egg as Amun, "the great Gackerer " out. Hymns praising him as the Allgott, " the (at the beginning of the world) his semen in his body combined to give rise to its egg in his secret inside ." " He made his egg itself, the Mighty One ..., all gods are created, after he had made with them to start with. " He is the " Lord of all, who started with existence ." As a self- uncreated Creator, he brought the world through " Selbstbegattung " out. He is - as Brahman - both male and female. Amun is considered a particularly mysterious, hidden God. "He's too powerful than that ... you might know him. Immediately falls down as if he were dead by a blow, who pronounce his secret name. "

Greek and Roman antiquity

In Greece, the myth of the world egg is part of the cult of Dionysus. The sacred stories of this cult report that the - more or less identical with Dionysus - God of creation slipped out of an egg. So mysterious is his nature, so uncertain is his name, his name is Phanes, Protogonos, Eros or Kronos. Since he himself is uncreated and rather produces everything, he is - as Brahman and as Amun - male - female. As Eigeborener he has wings. In an Orphic hymn he is called " primordial, double -faceted, ether by flying giant, / thou entschlüpftest the egg, resplendent with golden wings, / yelling as loud as a bull, you origin of gods and men ... / blessed, Kluger, of seeds rich, full, visit joy / us, the knowledge of the parties, to the sacred, shining consecration " like the Egyptian Amun is also the Orphic Protogonos / Phanes as a particularly " mysterious deity ". He pulls the " connoisseurs of the celebration ," the " veil of hazy darkness away from the eyes."

In Roman Mithraism Mithras appears in the appearance of the Orphic Phanes. Winged and schlangenumwunden, surrounded by the twelve constellations of the zodiac and the blowing of the four winds of the compass he stands between the lower and the upper half of Welteneies. In his right hand he holds the majestic thunderbolt, in his left hand the world axis.

Finland

In the Finnish national epic Kalevala it is said that a diving duck an egg into the womb of Ilmata, the goddess of the air, put. " The lower half turned / and became the earth, / and its upper half turned / and became the sky. / The sun was from the yolk ..., / and the White was the moon. ".

Africa

In the African cosmogony is more about the creation of the first man and world creation models are relatively rare. Exceptions are the complex creation myths of the Dogon in Mali with the law stemming from the Creator God Amman world egg and Moroccan Gnawa, whose world was created from a serpent's egg, which floated on the primeval ocean. Your cosmogonic idea characterizes the healing ceremony Derdeba.