Creation. The word itself represents the most fascinating and enduring mystery of all. Yet the circumstances attending the ordering of the world at the Time of Beginning remain inscrutable even now in the 21st century, well over four-thousand years after the first written accounts that describe the birth of everything.
Primary structures of ancient myth—such as the World Pillar, world-engulfing dragon, purple haze of creation—among hundreds of others—remain forever elusive and seemingly fantastic or irrational.
Yet once the original celestial prototype is revealed the manifold structures of cosmogonic myth fall into place like individual codons in DNA—and to those that can see—appear inherently throughout nature.
The undeniable fact remains that the historical information encoded in cosmogonic myth provides innumerable clues to what makes us human.
A respected comparative mythologist, veteran Thunderbolts contributor Ev Cochrane is the author of Martian Metamorphoses (1997), The Many Faces of Venus (2001), Starf*cker (2006), On Fossil Gods and Forgotten Worlds (2010), Phaethon (2017), The Case of the Turquoise Sun (2024), Egypt Under the Stars (2025), and most recently, Snapshots of Creation (2026).
