Nighttime Story: Creation Myths And The Cosmic Egg

Creation myths where the world was born from a cosmic egg are common around the world. In this episode, I share cosmic egg myths from Finland, the Cook Islands, Scandinavia, and Ancient Greece and Egypt. The egg often symbolizes both unity and duality — a single whole that contains within it the seed of division, light and darkness, sky and earth, life and death.

From its shell emerges structure, from its yolk and white the diverse forces of creation. Many traditions describe the egg cracking open in primordial waters, or floating in a void before splitting into the heavens above and the land below.