Creation of the World

Genesis 1:1-2

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.”

Quran 21:30

“Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were joined together as one unit of creation, then We parted them? And We made from water every living thing.”

Rig Veda 10:129

“In the beginning there was neither existence nor non-existence. The One alone existed without a second. In that One the universe lay folded up, and it was stirred into life by the power of heat.”

Nasadiya Sukta

Enuma Elish

“When on high the heaven had not been named, firm ground below had not been called by name, when primordial Apsu, their begetter, and Mummu-Tiamat, she who bore them all, had mixed their waters in a single mass, no reed hut had sprung up, no marsh land had appeared.”

Tao Te Ching ch.1

“The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name. The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.”

Popol Vuh

“This is the account of when all is still silent and placid. All is silent and calm. Hushed and empty is the womb of the sky. The Sovereign Plumed Serpent, the Giver of Being, the Maker, brooded over the water.”

Prose Edda (Gylfaginning)

“In the beginning, when nothing was, there was Muspelheim in the south full of fire and brightness, and Niflheim in the north, filled with ice and cold. And between them was the great void called Ginnungagap.”