Astronomy 2022A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hopi Mythology, Ginnungagap, Chinese Mythology

• School: Western University
• Department: Astronomy
• Course: Astronomy 2022A/B
• Professor: Chris Racknor

Document Summary

Genesis: ib (in beginning) god created the heavens and the earth . Darkness was upon the face of the deep. Hesiod where death dwells, and night: ib there was only chaos infinite emptiness, then out of the void appeared erebus - the unknowable place, all else was empty, silent, endless, darkness then somehow. From love came light & day and then gaea (earth) Love was born bringing a start of order: erebus slept with night, who gave birth to ether = heavenly appeared light. Edda earth or heaven, no sand nor sea nor cooling waves: ib there was no, there was only ginnungagap = great void, in the north there was nilfheim. Her spring flowed eleven rivers = elivagar: as the rivers flowed south, they cooled and hardened into ice. World at first was endless space and existed only the creator, World had no time, no shape, and no life, except in the mind of the.