Polytheism
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Polytheism is the belief or worship in multiple deities usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their own religions and rituals. Polytheist.
In Greek mythology, Chaos or Khaos is the primeval state of existence from which the first gods appeared. In other words, the dark void of space. It is made from a mixture of what the Ancient Greeks considered the four elements: earth, air, water and fire. For example, when a log is burned, the flames were attributed to the fire in it, the smoke the air in it, the water and grease that come from it were supposed to be the water, and the ashes left over were the earth.
Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, described Chaos as "rather a crude and indigested mass, a lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, of jarring seeds and justly Chaos named". From that, its meaning evolved into the modern familiar "complete disorder".
Chaos features three main characteristics:
-it is a bottomless gulf where anything falls endlessly. This radically contrasts with the Earth that emerges from it to offer a stable ground.
-it is a place without any possible orientation, where anything falls in every direction;
-it is a space that separates, that divides: after the Earth and the Sky parted, Chaos remains between both of them.
In ancient greek, Chaos and Cosmos are synonymous. The greeks believed that the gods and the humans were the only agents of order, everything else was chaotic by default.
They had a good concept
Well, I do disagree with them. Looking at the bigger picture, I find the Universe very orderly, and Humanity as the agents of Chaos.
Yup
My thoughts exactly
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