In almost every tradition, the creation of the universe process takes 6 days. This is an allegory for humans to understand. Actually, not 6 days, but 6 phases. When we include the Creation of God and/or gods, it becomes 7 phases. Let's uncover those 7 phases of creation and allegories.
“For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.”
Every culture, in every corner of the world, has a story about how everything began. And on the surface, they couldn't be more different.
One has a sky-father, another a primordial serpent. One uses words, another uses war.
For centuries, we've been told these are just contradictory fairy tales. Too many gods, too many plots. But what if that's wrong?
What if, buried under the strange names and epic battles, there is a single, universal blueprint? A master script for creation that every culture on Earth independently discovered?
Today, we're going to uncover that script. We're going to line up the Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Norse, the Maya, the Aboriginal Australians, and dozens more... We are going to reveal the one story they are all telling.
This isn't about religion. This is about pattern recognition. And the pattern is breathtaking.
By the way, this section is one of many wisdoms that I explained in the Book of Awe. If you don’t want to wait for other chapters as blogs, check out The Book of AWE
I am Hydas The Magus. I help spiritual beings discover correct and real wisdom through over 10 years of real-life experiences in spirituality, esotericism, occultism, and consciousness. If you desire to join this journey, follow the Magus on Social Media, so you will be invited to wisdom each time.
Phase 1: The Nothing/The All
(Visual: The screen is pure black. A single point of light appears.)
Phase 1: The Nothing and The All.
Act One, Scene One. The human mind demands that before there is something, there must be... nothing.
But this isn't just an empty room. This is the energy. A consciousness. A source. the ALL. The ancient Kabbalists called it Ein Sof—the endless. The Greeks called it Chaos—not a mess, but a yawning gap. The Daoists called it, simply, the Dao before it had a name.
The Hebrew Bible, the Torah, starts not with a battle, but with a declaration of this absolute source:
"… The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep." (Genesis 1:1-2)
This "without form and void" is the primordial state.
This is the one moment where philosophy and myth agree perfectly. Before time, before space, there is the source of all things. The Hermetic sages called this the principle of Mentalism—"The All is Mind." The universe begins not as a thing, but as a thought.
Phase 2: Orders & Water
Phase 2: Orders & Water.
What is the first thing that thought manifests? Water.
Not H2O, but the idea of water. A fluid, chaotic, potential-filled substrate. The Sumerians had water Nammu. The Egyptians had water Nun. In Babylon, Apsu (fresh) folds into Tiamat (salt). Islam remembers a Throne upon the water. in Yorùbá myth: the world was water
Genesis says:
"...and darkness was over the face of the deep." (Genesis 1:2)
That word "deep" is "Tehom" in Hebrew— which means the primordial, chaotic waters.
The Qur'an says:
"And His Throne was upon the water..." (Surah Hud 11:7)
...and We made from water every living thing." (Surah Al-Anbiya 21:30)
Before land, before light, there were waters. Why water? Because water in here is an allegory which is actually both the energy that everything is created with and afterwards. The order and chaos are like dimensions, the foundations of the universe. We see principles of Polarity, Correspondence and Vibration here—the shift from stillness to the first, fundamental waves of existence. There were no words at that time to explain the technology of god, so metaphors and allegories were used frequently in the holy texts.
Phase 3: Creation of Gods
Phase 3: Creation of Gods.
Now the universe has an order. But it needs to be kept in balance, either with blessing or punishment. It needs... a management team.
In polytheistic myths, this is where the gods are born. But in monotheistic texts, this is where the creative power of the One God is delegated.
In Genesis, we see this “balancer” immediately:
"And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters." (Genesis 1:2)
And how does creation proceed? Through the Word.
"And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light." (Genesis 1:3)
This "saying" is the divine agency in action. The Qur'an mirrors this perfectly with the divine command "Kun!" which means ("Be!"). The principle is the same: from the One Source emerges the creative force that structures reality. In Egypt, Ptah also creates with tongue and heart.
Think of them as job titles. The CEO of the Sky. The Head of the Earth. The Vice President of the Seas. In Sumeria, Anu and Ki give birth to Enlil who separated sky and earth—the space between that makes life possible. In Greece, Chaos gives way to Gaia and Uranus. In Egypt, Atum emerges from the waters to birth the Ennead.
This is the universe defining its own rules. It's the principle of Polarity—sky and earth, light and dark, male and female. The cosmos is building its first pairs of opposites.
“By Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth… all things were created through Him and for Him.” (Colossians 1:16)
We clearly see the allegory that “Him” is the ALL, the energy that existed in the beginning
Phase 4: Shaping the Universe
Phase 4: Shaping the Universe.
Now for the most critical construction phase: bringing order from the watery chaos. In other myths, it's a battle. Here, it is a sovereign act of separation. The world is still a watery, formless chaos. To create a stable world, chaos must be defeated and ordered. The raw materials are here, the ones that keep the universe in balance assembled—time to shape the universe.
In Babylon, god Marduk slays the sea-dragon Tiamat and splits her body in two to create the heavens and the earth. In Vedic tradition, Indra slays the serpent Vritra to release the pent-up waters and create the rivers. In Norse myth, the gods kill the giant Ymir and fashion the world from his body. In China, Pangu separates yin and yang, his body becoming mountains and rivers. Zeus assigns domains: storm here, sea there, earth between.
The Egyptian god Ptah creates by speech—words as cosmic software. The Māori gods push Rangi (Sky) and Papa (Earth) apart, creating space for the world.
This is universe-building at its most literal—the great construction project where raw chaos becomes ordered cosmos. The allegory here is that there was chaos we brought order by separating the sky and the earth, which is the metaphor for the dimensions.
…Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.' And God made the firmament and separated the waters that were under the firmament from the waters that were above the firmament. And it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven." (Genesis 1:6-8)
This is the Abrahamic version of "slaying the dragon of chaos." It's not a violent struggle, but a deliberate, majestic act of architecture. The Qur'an describes this same cosmic craftsmanship:
"And God made the firmament and separated the waters that were under the firmament from the waters that were above the firmament." (Genesis 1:7)
This isn't just violence. This is cosmic architecture. The dome of the sky, the foundation of the earth—it's all built from the body of the defeated chaos.
"Do not the disbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, then We separated them..." (Surah Al-Anbiya 21:30)
The "joined entity" is the unified chaos. The "separation" is the creation of a stable, ordered world. Do you see the allegory of the dragon, serpent? As the balancer, harmonizer of the universe exist called gods and their counterpart, the corrupters of balance, creatures of chaos, also existed.
May those curse it who curse the day, Those who are skillful to arouse Leviathan. (**Job 3:8-16)**
Remember:
As above, so below; As below, so above.
Phase 5: Cosmic Architecture & Order
The universe is now built. But a building isn't a home. A body isn't a life. So, Phase 5: Cosmic Architecture & Order. This is where physics meets ethics. Where the cosmos gets its rules.
The construction balancers are done. Now come the lawyers, the timekeepers, and the judges.
In Mesopotamia, the gods formalize decrees and destinies. Constellations become a celestial calendar, and temples sync earth with heaven. In Egypt, the feather of Ma'at becomes the ultimate measure of truth and balance. In Vedic India, Ṛta—cosmic order—becomes the foundation for Dharma, the moral law.
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The Abrahamic texts codify this beautifully. Genesis states:
"And God said, 'Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years.'" (Genesis 1:14)
The Qur'an establishes the principle of cosmic balance:
"And the heaven He raised and imposed the balance—that you not transgress the balance." (Surah Ar-Rahman 55:7-8)
And the laws of motion:
"Each one [the sun and moon] swims in an orbit." (Surah Ya-Sin 36:40)
This is universal. The Maya weave the Tzolk'in and Haab' calendars into life itself. The Norse Norns weave fate at the roots of Yggdrasil. Aboriginal Songlines turn geography into a sacred obligation.
This phase writes the score for the cosmic symphony. The laws of music are composed.
Phase 6: Creation of Life
(Visual: A lush, vibrant montage of life on Earth—forests, schools of fish, birds in flight, animals on plains.)
Phase 6: Creation of Life.
With a stable world now separated and ordered, the blueprint calls for the stage to be filled. It's time for Life.
This is where the environment, now perfectly tuned, bursts into motion. The texts describe this not as a random accident, but as a deliberate and joyful filling of the domains that were just created.
In Genesis, the sequence is masterful:
"And God said, 'Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens.'" (Genesis 1:20)
“And God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.’” (Genesis 1:24)
The Qur'an returns to its foundational principle:
"And Allah has created every animal from water..." (Surah An-Nur 24:45)
This principle is echoed everywhere. In Egypt, life is tied to the daily renewal of Ma'at—cosmic order. In Aboriginal Australia, all life follows the waterways traced by the Rainbow Serpent. For the Maya, a successful life is tied to sacred maize. Life emerges as the natural consequence of a properly tuned cosmos.
Phase 7: Creation of Humans
(Visual: A slow-motion shot of human hands, then a face, then a diverse crowd of people looking up. The words "Image" and "Vicegerent" appear.)
Phase 7: Creation of Humans.
The stage is set. The world is ordered and filled with life. Now, the final, most profound act of the blueprint: the creation of us.
And the reason given is astonishingly consistent: we are here as God's representatives on Earth.
Genesis states:
"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth..." (Genesis 1:26)
We are "image-bearers." Stewards. The Qur'an uses a powerful, parallel term:
"And [mention, O Muhammad], when your Lord said to the angels, 'Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive authority [Khalifah].'" (Surah Al-Baqarah 2:30)
"...He who perfected everything He created and began the creation of man from clay." (Surah As-Sajdah 32:7)
A Khalifah is a vicegerent, a custodian.
And the substance? Universal. From the dust of Genesis, the clay of the Qur'an, the yellow clay of Nüwa in China, the trees of Ask and Embla in Norse myth, to the maize of the Maya. We are the culmination—the beings created to complete the cosmic circuit. The allegory of clay is DNA and soul. There were no words at that time to explain the technology of god, so it’s metaphorically called clay, mud or dust.
Part 8: The Revelation
So let's look at the blueprint one last time.
Phase 1: The ALL. The Nothing that is Everything. Phase 2: The Waters. Phase 3: The Gods. Balancers and Corrupters. Phase 4: Shaping the universe. Phase 5: The Separation of Sky and Earth & The Battle. Order from chaos. Phase 6: The Creation of Life. Phase 7: The Creation of Humanity.
From the Aboriginal Rainbow Serpent to the Norse World Tree, from the Bible to the Bhagavad Gita, this is the pattern. The names change. The moral framing shifts. But the choreography... the choreography is identical.
This isn't a coincidence. It's a reflection of a deep, fundamental pattern in reality itself. We didn't invent these stories. We discovered them, each culture painting the same cosmic truth with its own unique colors.
If this map helped you see the connections you always felt were there, then I've done my job. The story is now yours to tell.
This section is one of many wisdoms that I explained in the Book of Awe. If you don’t want to wait for other chapters as blogs, check out The Book of AWE
I am Hydas The Magus. I help spiritual beings discover correct and real wisdom through over 10 years of real-life experiences in spirituality, esotericism, occultism, and consciousness. If you desire to join this journey, follow the Magus on Social Media, so you will be invited to wisdom each time.
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