Kháos, Creator of the World

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My Incarnation of Chaos (Painting) || 2018

Chaos (Khaos), antithesis of the cosmos (Kosmos), is what you have just read. It is its brief explanation (what I have been able to do) about what is chaos according to the Greek cosmogonic accounts (specifically Hesiod). This is the origin principle. Its closest analogy is the Big Bang.

Cosmogony
It is the mythical story in which it is told how the world was created and ordered, that is, suppose an attempt to explain the origin and order of the universe.

Chaos
• According to the Theogony of Hesiod, Chaos was the first thing that existed.
• In the work Metamorphoses, Ovid described Chaos as rudis indigestasta moles. Chaos was an unformed mass, where all the elements were jumbled up together in a "shapeless heap".
• According to Cayo Julio Higino in his Fables, in the prologue, he defines Chaos as a descendant of the Darkness. Chaos and Darkness then conceive the Night, the Day, the Erebus and the Aether.

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The cosmogony basically, as I mentioned, is the attempt to explain the origin of the world and the universe. This unleashes three theories, giving an explanation to the cosmogony, of which are:

• Orphic cosmogony: philosophical-religious sect that worships Orpheus. This affirms that the Primordial Egg is from where the world was created.

• Philosophical cosmogony: Are the logical principles of the pre-Socratic philosophy where they explain in a rational sense how the world came about. It also includes that the creation of this is caused by natural phenomena.

• Hesiod's cosmogony: He explains in his poetic work Theology that the world is made up of Gaia, Chaos, Order and Eros.