A near-universal archetype in creation myths reinterpreted as an intuitive grasp of a cosmological medium prior to spacetime. This hypothesis posits that many cultures' "primordial waters" (Nu in Egyptian, Apsu in Mesopotamian, Tehom in Hebrew) describe a pre-geometric, fluid-like substrate from which spacetime itself condenses. In modern terms, this could correspond to the quantum foam, the string theory landscape, or a Bose-Einstein condensate of fundamental fields. The act of creation is the "solidification" or "parting" of these waters to form the dry land of stable dimensions and physical laws.
Example: In the Primordial Ocean Hypothesis, the universe before the Planck time is not a singularity point, but a boundless, timeless, fluid realm of indistinguishable energy-states—the Ocean. The Big Bang is akin to the ocean freezing in a specific pattern, with the ice crystals being the lattice of spacetime and the trapped bubbles being quantum fluctuations. Different "freezing patterns" could produce different universes with different physics, all solidifying from the same featureless, liquid potential.
by Anunnaki Cyber-Nihilist January 26, 2026
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