Phanes (English spelling)

Japanese: Phanēs(英語表記)Phanes
Phanes (English spelling)

...The egg was later held by a giant snake, from which the ordered universe (cosmos) hatched. The Greek Orphic mythology tells us that Aithēr, the god of the heavens, mated with Chronos or Chaos to create a giant silver egg from which the first hermaphrodite god Prōtogonos (the first-born) or Phanēs (light) was born. In Egyptian mythology, the sun god Ra was born from a golden egg laid by a Nile goose, and the creator god Khnum also spat out an egg from his mouth, which became the source of language.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Phanēs" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…この卵は後に巨蛇に抱かれ,そこから秩序宇宙(コスモス)が孵化したという。またギリシアのオルフェウス教による神話は,上天の神アイテルAithērがクロノスないしカオスと交わって巨大な銀色の卵をつくり,そこから最初の両性具有神プロトゴノスPrōtogonos(〈最初に生まれた者〉)あるいはファネスPhanēs(〈光明〉)が生まれたと説く。さらにエジプト神話では,ナイル川のガチョウが産んだ黄金の卵から太陽神ラーが誕生し,創造神クヌムKhnumも口から卵を吐きだしこれを言語の源としたと語られている。…

※「Phanēs」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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