October
26
/ 2022
Which came first: the chicken or the egg? If God created the universe, then who created God? If nothing existed before the Big Bang, then what created the cataclysm? The laws of the universe dictate that something can’t come from nothing. As a species, we have always struggled to explain how the universe as we know it originated. Religions have always tried to fill this gap in our knowledge, with mixed results. A prime example is the ancient Greek creation myth, which begins with Chaos. Chaos was an incredibly fluid and confusing concept in ancient Greece - sometimes a place, sometimes a goddess, and sometimes quite literally nothing. Who, or What, was Chaos in Greek Mythology? In Greek cosmology, first
