Ophic Egg (Jacob Bryant, 1774) The Philosophical Egg “The egg is a germ of life with a lofty symbolical significance. It is not just a cosmogonic symbol — it is also a “philosophical one”. As the former it is the Orphic Egg, the world’s beginning; as the latter, the philosophical egg of the medieval…
M57 Ring Nebula Joseph Campbell and the Cosmic Egg “The shell of the cosmic egg is the world frame of space, while the fertile seed-power within typifies the inexhaustible life-dynamism of nature.” Joseph Campbell A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
The Cosmic Egg According to the worshipers of Visnu, the cosmic egg (also known as the golden womb) emerges from the world ocean at the beginning of the ever-recurring cycle of creation as a result of the friction produced by wind and water. Visnu then enters the cosmic egg and, after a period of…