Browsing: Chaos

Zeus’s battle with Typhon represents the struggle between an ordered but plural cosmos and an anti-cosmic force whose power must be bounded rather than completely erased.

A Neo-Assyrian cylinder seal associated with the mythic battle between Tiamat and Marduk, symbolizing the defeat of chaos and the establishment of cosmic order.

Ancient Mesopotamian sculpture accompanying the themes of divine hierarchy, kingship, ritual, cosmic order, fate, and the recurring threat of chaos.

Tartarus is both a primordial deity and the inaccessible depth where Greek cosmic order confines forces it cannot destroy or assimilate.