You're listening to the ancient tradition. A Wonk Media production. Music provided by Joseph McDade. Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition podcast.

I'm your host, Jack Logan.

Today is the day, the day we reveal the answer to the greatest mystery in the world,

how life came to be.

In this episode, we'll dive into the ancient record and unearth the catalyst that set the

creation in motion.

In the previous two episodes, we established that the ancients assigned exceptional importance

to the creation, the creation of the cosmos and the earth.

And what's interesting is that the ancients didn't begin their accounts of the creation

with a description of the creation. Instead, the ancients didn't begin their accounts of the creation with a description of the creation.

Instead, the ancients began their creation accounts by describing what the cosmos looked like before the creation ever took place.

We pointed out that Marinus van der Sluze, the world's expert on ancient cosmologies,

found that the ancients the world over

described the primordial pre-creative state of the universe as a dark, watery substance,

which scholars today refer to as the primordial waters. In the previous episode, we established that

the ancients didn't believe that

the pre-creative state of the universe was made up of actual water. The ancients used water

symbolically to describe the pre-creative state. And why? Because water was an excellent way to convey many of the important characteristics of what the universe was like before the creation took place.

Water was used to convey that the pre-creative state of the universe was made up of some sort of substance, a substance that filled the universe like water.

In ancient Egypt in Hermopolis, the ubiquitous nature of the primordial waters was represented

by the god Heia, or Heu, whose name originally meant flood.

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