Powers of chaos accompany any order of the human world being the force against which this
order is set. Human experience of history is two-fold. There is history ruled by chaos and
history ruled by order. History occurs in a continuous flow of both histories. The dialectics
of life unto nothingness creation struggles for order order achieved is unceasingly actual. In
exploring it within a wide interdisciplinary and transcultural range this book reaches beyond
a conventional philosophy of history. It deals with the chaotic as well as the cosmic part of
the human historical experience. It stages this drama through the tales that religious
mythical literary philosophical folkloristic and historiographical sources tell and which
are retold and interpreted here. From early on humans wished to know where why and wherefore
all started and took place. Couldn't the dialectics between chaos and order be meaningful?
Couldn't they assume a productive role as to the world'sprecarious event? Power strife guilt
divine grace and revelation literary symbolization as well as storytelling are discussed in
this book. Philosophy political theory theology religious studies and literary studies will
greatly benefit from its width and density.
