How the universe began

Let’s start with the Egyptians. In the beginning there was a primordial being, the one that existed before the beginning of everything, this would be Ra (Sun), who created Shu – God of the air and Thefnet – goddess of the void. Shu and Thefnet had two children Geb – God of the Earth, and Nut – goddess of the sky. Shu rised up and separated Nut from her mother, which is why Nut is the celestial arch that rests on the Horizon. Geb, his brother, confronts his father and his movements create earthquakes and mountains. Nut and Geb in turn have 3 children Osiris – the Nile, Isis – the fertile soil, Seht – the desert. I recognize that his explanation is somewhat poetic, but he tells us that in the beginning everything was united and then it separated and created everything that exists. I see the meaning, although this is from a papyrus from more than 8000 years BC.

The oldest Greeks are known as the Pelasgians, and their myth of the origin of the universe was based on a primeval mother goddess. The goddess of all things arose from Chaos (perhaps an explosion?) but found nothing to put her feet on, and so she separated the sea of the firmament (matter?) and danced among its waters in a southerly direction. Then, Boreas the wind appeared and they both had a son, Orfion who later impregnated his mother and laid the primordial egg. Orfion, represented as a great serpent (in ancient times comets were represented as serpents), broke the primordial egg from which all beings and elements of the Cosmos emerged.

Perhaps an incessant shower of comets would explain how life came to Earth.

In China there is the so-called Pan-Gu cycle to explain how the universe was formed, the first texts of this myth were found in the 3rd century.

In principle, there was nothing in the universe except chaos and a dark and empty mass. Chaos began to merge into a cosmic egg for 18,000 years. Inside the egg, yin and yang, the opposites balanced, and then PAN-GU came out, raising the sky to the top. He did so for 18,000 more years. He was so tired that he laid down to rest and died, and then from him the wind arose from his breath, from his voice thunder, from the left eye the Sun and from the right eye the Moon. From his body the mountains, from his blood the rivers, from his muscles the fertile earth, the hair on his face in the stars of the Milky Way, and from his hair the forests, from his bones the minerals, marrow and semen in jade and pearls. His sweat fell in the form of rain and the small creatures that inhabited his body became human beings. According to this legend, PAN-GU finished creating the universe around the year 2,229,000 BC.

To be a myth, it coincides with cultures that are geographically far away. I think it could be said that the explanations are coincidental and their way of explaining is not very far from the big bang theory.