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Whirlwinds in creation myths and religious texts.md

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Phillipines

![[Pasted image 20240504221025.png]] https://www.aswangproject.com/bathala/

When the world first began there was no land, but only the sea and the sky, and between them was a kite. One day the bird which had nowhere to alight grew tired of flying about, so she stirred up the sea until it threw its waters against the sky. The sky, in order to restrain the sea, showered upon it many islands until it could no longer rise, but ran back and forth. Then the sky ordered the kite to alight on one of the islands to build her nest, and to leave the sea and the sky in peace.

Democritus

Democritus developed a theory that the world had originated from the void, a vast region in which atoms were swirling in a whirlpool or vortex. The heaviest matter was sucked into the center of the vortex and condensed to form the earth. The lightest matter was thrown to the outside where it revolved so rapidly that it eventually ignited to form the stars and planets. These celestial bodies, as well as the earth itself, were kept in position by centrifugal force. https://blogs.futura-sciences.com/e-luminet/tag/democritus/

caduceus snake coil kundalini vortex

Aztec

All temples dedicated to the Wind God were made perfectly round, and with a cone-shaped roof ![[Pasted image 20240504222457.png]]

![[Screenshot 2024-05-04 at 22.29.23.png]] Mictlantecuhtli - god of death

https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/gods/study-the-wind-god

Egyptian

Amun is a sun god who creates himself from a cosmic egg in a burst of primal energy.  He is seen in the form of a wind, stirring primeval ooze into a vortex.  A primeval mound of silt emerges from this ooze, which gives the sacred shape of a pyramid.

https://storyarchaeology.com/origin-stories-revisited/

Navajo

“We shall dry it,” said the winds. Then the winds went up to the Fourth World. The cyclones and the whirlwinds and the small dust devils went up to the Fourth World. They swirled about and dried the surface well so the people could walk. Then the Ant People went up and walked on the dried surface of the Fourth World, and all the other people and created things followed.

https://www.lessonsofourland.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/PreK_Lesson-1_Four-Worlds-Story-of-Creation.pdf

Then they placed twelve big white cyclones (Niholtso) in the east under the edge of the world, and twelve blue cyclones (Niholtso-doklizh), under the edge of the world at the south, and twelve yellow cyclones (Niholtso-klitsoi) in the west under the edge of the world, and twelve black cyclones under the north. And these forty-eight cyclones are what hold the world up. They also sent all kinds of winds up to the sky to hold up the sky and stars." https://twinrocks.com/legends/environment/cyclone-wind-stars.html

Christianity

And God made a wind blow over the earth, and the waters subsided; Genesis 8:1

And YHWH answers Job out of the whirlwind and says: Job 38:1

Your thunder roared from the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world! Psalm 77:18

https://biblehub.com/job/38-1.htm

The Secret Doctrine Dialogues

The Primordial Seven, the First Seven Breaths of the Dragon of Wisdom, produce in their turn from their Holy Circumgyrating Breaths the Fiery Whirlwind.

https://www.theosophy-ult.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/secret-doctrine-dialogues.pdf

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