History Main / CosmicEgg

** And in the Literature/{{Discworld}} novel Discworld/{{Eric}}, it turns out that life was created by Rincewind (who had gone back in time) tossing away the '''Egg'''-and-Cress sandwich given to him by The Creator.

* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphic_Egg Orphic Egg]] of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelasgian_creation_myth#Pelasgian_creation_myth Pelasgian creation myth]] which predates ClassicalMythology and even the Greek language.

* The Taoist idea of Pangu from ChineseMythology is this trope.

* [[EgyptianMythology Egyptian]] [[http://www.mythome.org/creategy.html myth]].

* OlderThanDirt: The Rig Veda (and later, some Puranas) use this to describe the universe in its early stages in HinduMythology.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Skaia more or less fits this description.

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* Resurrected as an idea in modern science with the Big Bang: for the first few Planck Times the universe was a highly-compressed [[BuffySpeak ball of proto-universal stuff]]. More often thought of as this within the big bang/big crunch model of an oscillating universe (now discredited by discovery of dark energy).

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* Several religions in TheElderScrolls have this motif.

** And given that much of Judaism (and Christianity) developed because of contact with Egypt during its period of bondage, it's not surprising that the opening line "God created the heaven and the earth", the word "created" is supposedly similar to that for giving birth.

** [[MythologyGag By gum]], Tokyo in ''ShinMegamiTenseiNocturne'' sure is round like the inside of a cosmic egg! Which it is, and it's up to the main character to determine what kind of world will emerge from it. [[spoiler:Or he can destroy the restarter mechanism and goes on a RageAgainstTheHeavens.]]

* This is how worlds are born in the BooksOfMagic. Tim restores the dying realm of Faerie by finding a world egg to hatch a new Faerie.

* The Precursor stone in ''JakIIRenegade'' is the last Precursor egg.

* ''Webcomic/Homestuck'': Skaia more or less fits this description.

* Homestuck: Skaia more or less fits this description

** And he'll create you one with one of the [[PikemonDiamondAndPearl Sinnoh legendaries]] in a ''[[PokemonGoldAndSilver Heartgold and Soulsilver]]'' event.

* In ''TheGodsThemselves'' by Creator/IsaacAsimov, these are used as ''[[PoweredByAForsakenChild fuel]]''.

* Bjork's song "Cosmogony": "And they say back then our universe was a cold black egg/Until the god inside burst out and from its shattered shell/He made what became the world we know."

* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' season 8 shows the Seed of Wonder, which has the shape of a red egg about the size of a football. According to Spike, "The world came from the Seed."

[-[[caption-width-right:330:Illustration by [[http://www.paintingsilove.com/artist/carol2 Carol Phillipson]].]]-]

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[[caption-width-right:204: Now we know which came first. [[MindScrew (But then, who laid it?)]]]]

** An egg of stone (a geode) is also central to the dwarfs' origin myth which explains how the dwarfs, the humans, and the trolls came to be.