Talk:Chaos (mythology)

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Contents 1 Comments 2 Singularity Parallel? 3 relevance ? 4 Uranus?

[edit] Comments

article, Chaos (mythology) should rightly be entitled just Chaos, where currently a rump article on the same topic resides.  I think that article should be merged here, and this one moved there.  All uses of the word stem from this use, and most links on Chaos point here.  There is already an excellent disambiguation page explaining the off-stemming uses. Thoughts, anyone?  - C. dentata  21:06, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

• Support. A "mythology" section would be better than a whole separate article, considering how short each article is. -Silence 04:32, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

• Support Agreed. One article titled Chaos with a mythology section would make the most sense. ♠ Åpeirophobia ♠ 05:31, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

• Support --Jordansc 05:51, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

• Support Stealthrabbit ^{Say it, baby, say it!} 01:55, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Singularity Parallel?

I was thinking that Chaos and the World Egg seem to heavily parallel the Big Bang theory's tiny "Singularity" from which the cosmos expanded. Even the areas of the World Egg which deal with the Egg or the creator creature's parts spewing everywhere are similar to the Singularity's distribution of matter in the Universe. --IronMaidenRocks 10:33, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] relevance ?

of this: ---Chaos is also a character in John Milton's Paradise Lost.--- i mean seriously, how is this relevant ? Tyriel 16:43, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

It is. IPSOS (talk) 01:56, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Chaos in Paradise Lost isn't exactly a "character" in the usual sense, but a personification (sort of) of the chaos discussed on this page. 24.58.72.221 01:23, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Uranus?

I'm confused. Wasn't Uranus spawned from Chaos as well, being Gaia's husband, who then had the children of Cronos, Rhea, Cyclops, 1000-armed men, etc.? I'm not confidently sure on that, so I don't want to put it in until confirmed. Is this right? Orcahuman 22:28, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Actually yes Uranus is spawned from chaos but is also known as Ouranos, which was listed Faqu2mofo (talk) 13:52, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

my appologies with my prior user name from the last post but yes uranus is also ouranos Codezy (talk) 14:07, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

In Hesiod, Ouranos was the son of Gaea NOT Chaos. She was able to give birth to him with no partner. The Titans were their children. Also, this article states that Hesiod calls Gaea a child of Chaos in the Theogony, yet this is not true. It simply says Gaea is the second entity to be created. The first was Chaos. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.210.173.10 (talk) 05:19, 10 April 2008 (UTC)