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Orphic and Hebrew Creation Story

Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
Are there similarities in the Orphic Phanes and the Hebrew creation of the 1st day?
 

arthra

Baha'i
What we gather from the Orphic Phanes:

Time, who was also called Aion, created the silver egg of the universe, out of this egg burst out the first-born, Phanes. Phanes was a uroboric male-female deity of light and goodness, whose name means "to bring light" or "to shine"; a first-born god of light who emerges from a void or a watery abyss and gives birth to the universe.[5]

Phanes (mythology) - Wikipedia

The creation story in Genesis:

…2The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. 3Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. 4God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.…
 
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