Cosmogony

We know that the origin of the universe is quite complex and cannot be known 1000% with certainty. There are many theories, the big bang being the most affected. The most common use of cosmogony is for medical accounts of the evolution and birth of the universe. In it, myths and legends form stories in which the gods intertwine in different battles and struggles to give birth to the universe. This type of narration is present in Sumerian and Egyptian mythology . This means that it became very important in history and passed through many cultures.

There are many types of cosmogony and they have been developed by many types of cultures throughout history. In general, each of them has a common origin of the universe and it is chaos. Within chaos, there are elements that are grouped and ordered thanks to the intervention of supernatural forces or deities. Remember that much of cosmogony does not focus on science at all. Therefore, they are not to be confused with astronomy.

It is a series of stories and mythical tales that refer to the theory of action of the cinephilia of the universe through battles and myths in which the gods faced each other resulting in the creation of the universe and the world.

Main features

The first is to know what cosmogony studies. It can be said that the objective is to study the origin and evolution of galaxies and star clusters to determine the age of the universe. However, for this, it has a set of mythical, philosophical, religious and scientific theories about the origin of the universe. He tries to base some of his theories on science, but when it comes to relying on mythical stories too, he has a little bit of faith.

The term cosmogony has its emphasis on the theoretical understanding of the beginning of the world which, according to current knowledge and accepted theories, is closely related to the big bang theory. And it is that cosmology also studies the current structure of the cosmos.

Let’s see what are the main characteristics of cosmogony:

• It contains a huge number of myths that contradict each other. These myths change throughout civilizations and today they are no longer the same.
• They have many superstitions and assimilation of mythical and divine characters with the origin of the universe.
• It had a very good acceptance within Egypt and was widely used to understand and express the great amount of creative power that the deities possessed.
• Through cosmogony we cannot go back to a moment of pre-existence or original chaos in which the world was not yet formed.
• Try to find a way to establish a reality through the perception of the universe, space and the origin of the gods. Remember that he tries to explain everything by mentioning farewells mixed with humanity and the natural elements that compose it.
• All religions have a cosmogony that can be identified with a process of creation or emanation.
• The word itself focuses on the study of the birth of the world.
• The first human civilizations that existed had a cosmogony that sought to explain terrestrial and spatial phenomena through myths. From this branch of “science” comes a huge number of myths about the origin and causes of various natural phenomena.

Cosmogony in Greek and Chinese Culture

We know that each religion has a type of cosmogony. In the case of Greek culture, it was composed of a set of stories that contained a large number of beliefs and myths of the Hellenic civilization regarding the origin of the universe and man. The appearance of Hesiod’s Theogony was the main source of inspiration for this mythology along with the poems of the Iliad and the Odyssey. . For the Greeks, the beginning of the world was a great chaos within a space in which the earth, the underworld and the beginning originated. The earth was the chamber of the teeth, the subterranean world was below the earth and the principle is what fostered the interaction between the different components of matter.

Out of all chaos comes night and darkness. When he walked together, light and day were created. This is how they try to tell the creation of the world through myths.

On the other hand, we have the Cosmogony of Chinese culture. The conception that existed in China expounded a theory of Kai t’ien which was a treatise that was written around the 4th century BC This theory ensured that the Earth was completely flat and both were separated by a distance of 80,000 li (one li is the equivalent of half a kilometer). Furthermore, this theory ensured that the sun had a diameter of 1250 li and moved circularly across the sky.

We also have a Christian cosmogony in which we have the origin of the world in Genesis, being the first book of the Bible. Here is how the God Yahve started to create the world in the beginning. Creation is a process that takes place by separating the earth from the heavens, the earth from the waters, and the light from the darkness. This means that the world is created by separating components out of utterly primitive chaos.