COMENIUS PROJECTPHILOSOPHY

The Babylonyan myth: Enuma Elish

“…alone their ancestor Apsù the progenitor, and mother Tiamat, their

genitrix, mixed together their waters…”

[Enuma Elish]

The Babylonian epic of creation 

XVIII b.C.

All the Gods, the Cosmos and men originated from the mixture of Apsù, the primordial fresh waters, and Tiamat, salt

waters.

The Biblical Story of Creation

“And the earth was waste and without form;

and it was darkon the face of the deep:

and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters”

[Genesis 1:2]

In the beginning God created the Earth as a shapeless mass covered with water and

darkness. God spoke and the waters retreated bringing out the mountains and

valleys.

Ebraic tradition18th century b.C.

Esiod’s Theogony

“...and Tethys bare to Oceanus the turbulent rivers and she brought forth

the Okeanides, of which there are thousands...”

[Esiod’s theogony]

In the beginning from the union of Oceanus, the generating power of waters, and Tethys dweller of the sea depths, the rivers, the springs and all the waters were

generated.

Thales and the search for “Archè”

“Water is the essential element of things”

[Aristotele, Metaphysics 1]

Where there is water, there is life.

Therefore water is the origin of all things, it is the substance from which all things

are born and to which all things will return.

Anaximenes: Air

Pànta Rhei (Everything flows)

Ephesus VI – V Century b.C.

… Fifty years later

“We step and do not step into the same rivers, we are

and are not”

[Heraclitus, Fragments of the River]

Everything flows like the water of the river, becoming is the law of the

universe.The perpetual flow of things and the universal becoming originate from

harmony of opposites.

Heraclitus