Creation Myths

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d in any way. Therefore, this dark is literally and completely incomprehensible. It is nowhere, has no qualities, and stands in no relations. It conveys more than the natural cyclic alteration of light and dark, suggesting too the possibility of total disruption and utter non-being. This primal darkness plays a double role in myths of creation. On the one hand, absence stands before the beginning of order as the field in and from which creation occurs; but, on the other hand, it also haunts the world as a perpetual threat of disorder. The monsters and powers of the time of chaos are not destroyed; instead, they are held at bay by underworld dungeons or magical protections.
But there is the constant danger that at the end of things dissolution may once again have the upper hand. In both roles, chaos is the background to what there is. It is implicit in all orderings as the Unmaker, (Card) In traditional myths; however, the void primarily plays a role as the site of original creation. This is its first and most dominant role.
Aztec Myth of Crea...