Browsing: Cosmic Order

A mythological study of the unity between divine genealogy and cosmic formation, showing how the births of Gaia, Uranus, Pontus, and the Ourea simultaneously construct the structure of the world.

Asclepius and his serpent-entwined staff accompany a philosophical comparison of nous and metis, examining healing, cunning, mortality, hybris, and two different ways of responding to death.

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.

De Morgan’s Cadmus and Harmonia accompanies a mythological reading of Cadmus’s music, Typhon’s desire, Zeus’s restored tendons, and Harmonia as the principle connecting difference into cosmic order.

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.

Egyptian mythology connects creation, death, rebirth, Ma’at, ritual, the afterlife, and divine order within a cyclical understanding of existence.

A faience image of Thoth in baboon form, combining one of his characteristic animal manifestations with his association with the moon.

A historical representation of Zarathustra accompanying the Gathas and their themes of Ahura Mazda, wisdom, human choice, truth, ritual, and responsibility.

Introduction to the Character Phaethon—Phaéthōn, “the shining one” or “the radiant one”—is the mortal son of Helios, the Sun God,…