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-	'''Chaos''' ([[Ancient Greek|Greek]] ''khaos'') refers to the formless or void state of '''[[Prima materia|primordial matter]]''' preceding the creation of the universe or [[cosmos]] in [[creation myth]]s, particularly [[Greek mythology|Greek]] but also in related [[religions of the Ancient Near East]].	+
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-	The motif of '''''[[chaoskampf]]''''' is ubiquitous in these myths, depicting a battle of a [[culture hero]] deity with a chaos monster, often in the shape of a serpent or [[dragon]].	+
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-	Fifth-century [[Orphism|Orphic]] cosmogony had a "Womb of Darkness" in which the Wind lay a ''[[World egg|Cosmic Egg]]'' whence [[Eros]] was hatched, who set the universe [[primum movens|in motion]].	+
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-	==Greco-Roman tradition==	+
-	In Greek [[cosmology]], Khaos was a primordial state of matter from which the [[cosmos]] and the other gods emerged.	+
-	For [[Hesiod]] and the early Greek Olympian myth (8th century BC), Chaos was the "vast and dark" void from which [[Nyx (mythology)|Nyx]] emerged.	+
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-	Chaos was also personified as a primal deity in [[Greek mythology]], as the first of the [[Protogenoi]] and the god of the air.	+
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-	Primal Chaos was sometimes said to be the true foundation of reality, particularly by philosophers such as [[Heraclitus]]. It was also probably what [[Aristotle]] had in mind when he developed the concept of [[Prima Materia]] in his attempt to combine Platonism with [[Pre-Socratic|Presocraticism]] and [[Naturalism (philosophy)|Naturalism]].	+
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-	[[Ovid]] (1st century BC), in his ''[[Metamorphoses (poem)|Metamorphoses]]'', described Chaos as "a rude and undeveloped mass, that nothing made except a ponderous weight; and all discordant elements confused, were there congested in a shapeless heap."	+
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-	[[Ovid]]. ''[[Metamorphoses (poem)|Metamorphoses]]'' 1.5-9	+
-	: Ante mare et terras et quod tegit omnia caelum	+
-	: unus erat toto naturae vultus in orbe,	+
-	: quem dixere chaos: rudis indigestaque moles	+
-	: nec quicquam nisi pondus iners congestaque eodem	+
-	: non bene iunctarum discordia semina rerum.	+
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-	:"Before the ocean and the earth appeared—	+
-	:before the skies had overspread them all—	+
-	:the face of Nature in a vast expanse	+
-	:was naught but Chaos uniformly waste.	+
-	:It was a rude and undeveloped mass,	+
-	:that nothing made except a ponderous weight;	+
-	:and all discordant elements confused,	+
-	:were there congested in a shapeless heap." (trans. B. Moore)	+
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