On the Hidwehian mythology:
https://hidwehproject.nekoweb.org/pages/zine/lithp.htmlI notice that God is signified as Saklas (סכלא), which is the second name of the Demiurge in the Apocryphon of John (200 CE); the three names being: (i) Yaldabaoth, (ii) Saklas and (iii) Samael.
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/apocjn-davies.htmlNow, "Yaldabaoth" can translate as "Child of Chaos", denoting the firstborn of creation, for as we read in Hesiod's Theogony (700 BCE), all things spawn from Chaos, with the first set of beings (the Protogenoi, which are followed by the Titans, the gods, then men). The Protogenoi are as follows: (i) Gaia, including Tartarus, or Hell, (ii) Eros, who is both Protogenoi and god, (iii) Erebus, or Darkness, (iv) Nyx, or Night. Now, it is Night and Darkness which bear the (i) Aether and (ii) Day, while Gaia is said to bear Uranus, or Heaven itself. So, Light comes from Darkness in this mythology, and Love (or Life) is within that primordial oblivion. Within the Sumerian cosmogony, Chaos is named Tiamat:
<When in the height heaven was not named, And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name, And the primeval Apsu, who begat them, And chaos, Tiam(a)t, the mother of them both…https://sacred-texts.com/ane/enuma.htmThe Enūma Eliš (1200 BCE) thus resonates, that the mother of Heaven and Earth is Tiamat ("sea"), which mirrors what Homer writes in the Iliad (14.242):
<Oceanus, from whom they all [the gods] are sprung https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:14.242-14.269This is also the prevailing interpretation of Plato:
<Epicharmus, the prince of Comedy, and Homer of Tragedy; when the latter sings of 'Ocean whence sprang the gods, and mother Tethys,' does he not mean that all things are the offspring, of flux and motion?Post too long. Click here to view the full text.