Literary notes about Cosmogony (AI summary)
The term "cosmogony" has been employed in literature as a multifaceted concept that encapsulates both the questioning of origins and the detailed narratives of cosmic creation. In some works—for example, Byron’s inquiry into the nature of existence—the word becomes a probing existential question, asking what it truly means to come-to-be [1]. At the same time, scholars of ancient literature and religious texts have used "cosmogony" to describe well‐defined, doctrinal systems of creation, such as the Sānkhya influence in Sanskrit literature [2] and even the mythological constructs found in the sacred texts of Japan [3, 4]. It appears as a pivotal element in philosophical and symbolic treatises alike, from the account of darkness and water in Chaldean tradition [5] to its role in elaborating mythic narratives in early Japanese Shinto texts [6] and even in the complex schemes of Parmenides and the Cabalists [7, 8]. Finally, literature shows how later traditions, like certain strands of Buddhism that influenced Gnostic thought, further expanded the concept into realms of fantastical cosmic architecture [9].