primordial chaos

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Noun

primordial chaos (uncountable)

  1. (mythology) The original unordered state of the universe, especially in classical cosmogonies.
    • 1757, G. W. Rabener, Satirical Letters, volume 2, page 283:
      But this I now know, that rather than be your sun-flower, and turn and incline to you, e'en let the world return to its primordial chaos.
    • 1882, François Lenormant, The Beginnings of History: According to the Bible and the Traditions of Oriental Peoples; From the Creation of Man to the Deluge, page 54:
      That of the first (1 in our appendix) is more theogonic than cosmogonic; it contains the succession of the generations of the gods, emanating from primordial chaos.
    • 2012, Alexander D. Ornella, “Disruptive Violence as Means to Create a Space for Reflection: Thoughts on Tarantino's Attempts at Audience Irritation”, in Robert von Dassanowsky, editor, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: A Manipulation of Metacinema, Continuum, page 222:
      The primordial chaos encompasses both creative and destructive forces and is capable of bringing forth new life and of destroying it in a blind rage.

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