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llms are telling me the oldest of these are 2500 years old
>In the beginning, there is only a vast, empty void. Ilmatar, the daughter of the air (sometimes called a goddess or spirit), descends from the heavens to the primal waters. She floats alone on the sea for ages, longing for companionship. One day, a storm stirs the waters, and Ilmatar is rocked by waves. A bird (often described as a duck or goldeneye) flies over, seeking a place to rest.
>Ilmatar raises her knee above the water, and the bird lands on it, laying six golden eggs and one iron egg.The bird incubates the eggs, causing Ilmatar’s knee to burn with heat. In discomfort, she twitches, and the eggs fall into the sea, breaking apart.
>From the shattered eggs, the world is formed: the lower part of the eggshells becomes the earth, the upper part forms the sky, the yolks create the sun, the whites become the moon, and the fragments of the shells turn into stars and clouds.
there are parallels to hebrew mythology especially the initial state of the world and the whole floating over water thing, describing the initial state of the world as an endless sea
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