Abstract
In the beginning, there was no time or space; in their absence, there was void or chaos. The cosmologies constructed by the human mind — whether expressed as mythology, religion or contemporary physics — have posited a state of formlessness, or of nothing, prior to the existence of time and space. Albert Einstein, whose theory of relativity occasioned a re-conceptualisation of time and space in the early twentieth century, noted that ‘scientific thought is a development of prescientific thought. As the concept of space was already fundamental in the latter, we should begin with the concept of space in prescientific thought’.1 This insight pertains as well to prescientific concepts of time and to mythological accounts of the origin of time and space.
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