A world egg or cosmic egg is a mythological motif found in the creation myths of many cultures and civilizations. Typically, the world egg is a beginning of some sort, and the universe or some primordial being comes into existence by "hatching" from the egg, sometimes lain on the primordial waters of the Earth.
Read more about World Egg: Sanskrit Scriptures and Vedanta, Chinese Mythology, Egyptian Mythology, Finnish Mythology, Representations, In Modern Cosmology, Influences On Science Fiction and Popular Culture
Famous quotes containing the words world and/or egg:
“The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“Teach those Asians mass production?
Teach your grandmother egg suction.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)