Greek myth holds that Nyx was its creator and Eros its progeny.
In ancient Egyptian mythology, it was held to be a gift of Thoth delivered through his symbolic animal. Greek myth holds that Nyx was its creator and Eros its progeny. Hindu belief holds that Brahma fathered himself by planting a seed that turned into it, and later he was born from it. In Chinese myth, P'an ku burst forth from it and forged its upper and lower halves into the sky and ground, while in the Kalevala, its fragments landed on Ilmatar's knee and became the sun and the moon from the yolk and white. For ten points, name this common motif in mythology that holds that in the beginning, the universe hatched.
In ancient Egyptian mythology, it was held to be a gift of Thoth delivered through his symbolic animal.
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