3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Ancient Babylonian creation myth in which the god Marduk slays the chaos dragon Tiamat and creates the world from her body — the archetypal mythological narrative of cosmos emerging from chaos that Peterson reads as a map of the human psychic condition.
Ancient Greek poet who produced the Theogony — the canonical account of the Greek gods' genealogy and the cosmos's origin — and Works and Days, a poem on agricultural labor and justice.
J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published mythological history of Middle-earth (1977, edited by Christopher Tolkien). Variant title of The Silmarillion — the creation myth of Ea, the Music of the Ainur, the fall of Morgoth, and the heroic ages of the First Age.