Oldest depiction of Creation discovered

A relief from the Ain Samiya goblet depicts cosmic order emerging from chaos (Regular Sigg)

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World’s oldest depiction of Creation discovered

(The Telegraph) The earliest depiction of the creation of the universe has been found on a 4,300-year-old silver goblet discovered in the West Bank, Palestine.

The vessel shows “before and after” scenes with a human-chimera figure confronted by a monstrous snake [naga in Buddhism], before the snake is subdued and the Sun takes its place in the sky, held aloft by two deities.

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Archaeologists say the images are an allegory for Order triumphing over Chaos at the beginning of time. The Sun is shown moving across the heavens in a celestial “boat of light.” It is the oldest known depiction of the formation of the cosmos and predates the Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish – which was recorded on stone tablets – by more than 1,000 years.

“The goblet does not tell of a violent struggle between gods [devas and asuras], but of a peaceful process of cosmic ordering,ˮ said Daniel Sarlo, co-author of the paper about the discovery for the Luwian Studies Foundation, a non-profit research group based in Switzerland.

“It shows how the Sun is born, banishes chaos, and renews the world.”

Order over Chaos

The artifact, which is 3.1 inches (7.9 cm) high, is known as the Ain Samiya goblet, and was found in the 1970s near Kafr Malik in the West Bank.

It dates from 2650 to 1950 BC and until now, experts thought it was linked to the Enuma Elish, which recounts the struggle between the younger gods and the monster of primordial chaos. More