The centrifugal action, called Demerá ("dark"), is the force that seeks to prevent the dispersion concentration. On the mental plane, the cohesive force is the tendency that lights up the unit. The centripetal action, personified by Lugus, the immanent, the Preserver of the universe is called Biwotúts ("existence"), because there is a concentration of energy, a force of agglomeration. These three basic forces are mentioned in cosmology as a centripetal attraction, a centrifugal force and balance. This triad is the primary basis for all aspects of the universe. the three elements, ie, the two opposing forces and their resultant, arising from the first movement in the Immensity supra-causal and non-differentiated Bituimon. The universe emerged from a triad, Trinertá, the Three Forces. As you can read in a post in my blog I've written years ago: There are also Indo-European religious symbols such as the triskelion and the swastika that are a vortex always in movement. Other Indo-European deities such as Brigid are also three faced or have three manifestations/personalities. Dagodeus is depicted as a three faced God, that is the explanation for such a motif as a trinity being so present in Indo-European cultures. The Celtic mythology is the one I'm most familiar with, so I can give you a more in depth example: Dagodeus is referred to as the vortex of existence, Trinertá. The reason for that is the channeling of spiritual energy - in the Vedic texts, it's called Nirgunabrahman, the impersonal, attributeless Absolute, or Parabrahman, the Supreme Absolute. He's everything, the universe itself, and the other gods are different manifestations of Brahma, avatars with different traits to be worshipped. In the Vedic cosmology, Brahma is the main God. One of the first bigger historical civilizations created by the Indo-Europeans was the Vedic civilization in North India. Therefore the appearance of minor differences between these different branches is inevitable, but the main aspects are the same. They're simply different branches of the same culture/mythology, that originated due to regional separation, as the Indo-Europeans invaded/migrated to different lands and different populations settled in regions isolated from each other. One thing that must be pointed out is that all the Indo-European cultures (Germanic, Celtic, Slavic, Greek, Persian, Vedic.) are the same. " He made the earth upon it, and the sky, and the sea's water, and the tireless sun, and the moon waxing into her fullness, and on it all the constellations that festoon the heavens, the Pleiades and the Hyades and the strength of Orion and the Bear, whom men give also the name of the Wagon, who turns about in a fixed place and looks at Orion and she alone is never plunged in the wash of Okeanos." "And now the shining light of the sun was dipped in the Okeanos trailing black night across the grain-giving land." "Now Helios of a new day struck on the ploughlands, rising out of the quiet water and the deep stream of Okeanos to climb the sky." "The star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in Okeanos (the Ocean-Stream) to glitter with brilliance." This infinite ocean was also where the heavenly bodies rose from and set into, according to Homer: The ocean might seem like an odd choice for a god of the cosmos, until you consider pre-classic era Greeks believed in a flat earth floating in an infinite ocean (personified by Oceanus). I think the primordial Titan Oceanus qualifies. Some accounts tell of the Titan Queen Eurynome (commonly mistaken with Zeus' third bride, and some accounts have them as one and the same person who was an Oceanid).Īnd of course there is also Ouranos, who is well known as the father of Kronos and the rest of the Titans, and he was depicted as the night sky that hung over the earth, the lover and husband of Gaia. There will be Chaos, which was accepted as the "oblivion" or the unknown, and the first being to give birth to all others. Going back the furthest you can in Greek mythology: For instance, some accounts that I've read in the past read that Zeus became King of the Gods only after he had drawn the lot for the sky, as opposed to either of his brothers (this can also be contested that he became King due to the fact that he was the one who overthrew his father and had to rescue his siblings, which is the most widely accepted version I've ever come across). Given that these are ancient cultures / mythologies we're discussing, it stands to point that perhaps they would have seen the two as synonymous, which was why historically the sky gods were said to be most powerful. This depends entirely on your stance of if you're asking for a sky god or if you'd prefer only "outer space", so to speak.
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