#cosmic egg

[jareckiworld]

Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) — "Cosmic Egg" [oil on canvas, 1917]

[memoriesofthingspast]

vaclav vaca

[ofruinsandmyth]

[blackcoffeedreams]

[goron-king-darunia]

Eggtober 20th, 2025: Cosmic Egg

Cosmic Egg (or "Suspension) (Krita, Wet Circle, 20 minutes, 6 colors)

Musings and speedpaint under the cut!

I came across the concept of a Cosmic Egg in some art recently. Can't find the first piece that I saw, but it's probably in my drafts somewhere waiting for tags. I liked the concept. Mythological concepts that persist like great floods or a self-eating serpent or a self-contained universe waiting to become are such neat things. Humans come up with strange and wonderful concepts and it makes me proud to be human. A friend recommended something to this effect as well. Might do another rendition if this wasn't quite what they were after.

I hope my concept for this is coming through, where it can either be seen as an egg bisected in half with a starry interior and a moon as a yolk, or a solid jelly like substance where the sun is being distorted through the substance.

Day and night, light and dark. I've had the concepts for a sunrise and sunset animation but with eggs as a motif for a bit, but I don't think I have the skill to animate that yet. And also the yin/yang motif but that's been done and I'm not sure I need to contribute. But I may!

In the meantime, enjoy. I really liked picking colors for this one. It feels so dreamy and gentle.

[cosmonautroger]

Ingo Swann, Cosmic Egg, 1994

[dream-menagerie]

The Cosmic Egg Must Be Cracked

[feminineforms]

Ananke, Athenian red-figure lekythos (ca. 5th BCE)

ANANKE was the primordial goddess (protogenos) of necessity, compulsion and inevitability. In the Orphic cosmogony she emerged self-formed at the dawn of creation--an incorporeal, serpentine being whose outstretched arms encompassed the breadth of the cosmos. Ananke and her mate Khronos (Chronos) (Time), their serpentine coils entwined, crushed the primal egg of creation splitting it into its constituent parts of earth, heaven and sea to form the ordered universe. After their act of creation Ananke and Khronos encircled the cosmos to drive the rotation of the heavens and the eternal passage of time. They were beyond the reach of the younger gods whose fates they were sometimes said to control.

Ananke wrapped around the cosmic egg, unknown artist