World egg

The world egg, cosmic egg or mundane egg is a mythological motif found in the cosmogonies of many cultures that is present in Proto-Indo-European culture and other cultures and civilizations. Typically, the world egg is a beginning of some sort, and the universe or some primordial being comes into existence by "hatching" from the egg, sometimes lain on the primordial waters of the Earth.

"Cosmic egg" redirects here. For the Wolfmother album, see Cosmic Egg.

The modern cosmological versions of this idea are called the emergent Universe scenarios.

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