Editing Cosmic egg (section)

=== Literature ===
In 1955 poet and writer Robert Graves published the mythography ''[[The Greek Myths]]'', a compendium of Greek mythology normally published in two volumes. Within this work Graves' imaginatively reconstructed "Pelasgian creation myth" features a supreme [[creator deity|creatrix]], [[Eurynome]], "The Goddess of All Things",<ref name="Graves1955"/> who arose naked from [[Chaos (cosmogony)|Chaos]] to part sea from sky so that she could dance upon the waves. Catching the [[Boreas (god)|north wind]] at her back and, rubbing it between her hands, she warms the ''[[pneuma]]'' and [[spontaneous generation|spontaneously generates]] the serpent [[Ophion]], who mates with her. In the form of a dove upon the waves, she lays the Cosmic Egg and bids Ophion to incubate it by coiling seven times around until it splits in two and hatches "all things that exist... sun, moon, planets, stars, the earth with its mountains and rivers, its trees, herbs, and living creatures".<ref name="Graves1955">{{cite book |last=Graves |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Graves |year=1990 |orig-year=1955 |title=The Greek Myths |volume=1 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-001026-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xKSxQQAACAAJ}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,866527,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080606031045/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,866527,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 6, 2008 |title=Books: The Goddess & the Poet |publisher=TIME |access-date=5 December 2010 |date=July 18, 1955}}</ref>