<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f8425b8b-17f4-40de-a3b4-9431ec5b1557/76C54085-1624-40F1-95DF-5B5A92C42FF1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chaos_(mythology)&oldid=306714631" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chaos_(mythology)&oldid=306714631" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chaos_(mythology)&oldid=306714631">Later on Chaos was described as an original state of existence from which the first gods appeared. In other words, the dark void of space.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chaos_(mythology)&oldid=306714631">In <A title="Greek language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language">Greek</A> it is <I>Χάος,</I> which in ancient Greek was pronounced <SPAN class="IPA" title="Pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><A title="Wikipedia:IPA" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA">[ˈkʰa.os]</A></SPAN>. It means "gaping void", from the verb χαίνω "gape, be wide open, etc", <A title="Proto-Indo-European language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language">Proto-Indo-European</A> *"ghen-", *"ghn-"; compare English "chasm" and "yawn", <A class="mw-redirect" title="Old English language" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_language">Old English</A> <I>geanian</I> = "to gape".</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chaos_(mythology)&oldid=306714631"><P>In Ancient Greek <A title="Cosmology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology">cosmology</A>, Chaos was the first couple of things to exist and the womb from which everything emerged. For <A title="Hesiod" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod">Hesiod</A> and the Olympian <A title="Mythos" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythos">mythos</A>, Chaos was the 'vast and dark' void from which the possible first deity, <A title="Gaia (mythology)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_(mythology)">Gaia</A>, emerged. In the <A title="Pelasgians" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelasgians">Pelasgian</A> creation myth, <A title="Eurynome" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurynome">Eurynome</A> ('goddess of everything') emerged from this Chaos and created the Cosmos from it<SUP title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from February 2007" class="noprint Template-Fact">[<I><A title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</A></I>]</SUP>. For <A title="Orphism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphism">Orphics</A>, it was called the 'Womb of Darkness' from which the <I><A title="World egg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_egg">Cosmic Egg</A></I> that contained the Universe emerged. It is sometimes conflated with 'Black Winged Night'.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/76C54085-1624-40F1-95DF-5B5A92C42FF1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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