This episode is a little different. Most of it comes directly from the source material with no commentary from me. You can think of them as uncracked eggs, or perhaps as broken pieces of an egg, which you must put back together yourself. Sections with an asterisk are composite pieces that were stitched together from more than one source. I should mention the book Primal Myths: Creation Myths Around the World by Barbara C. Sproul for some of the creation tales, and Ordo Ab Chao by David Livingstone, from which I adapted some of the Phanes material.
The music is from "Fugue in D Minor" by Egg.
1) John 12:24
2) Humpty Dumpty (Nursery Rhyme)
3) Finnegans Wake- James Joyce
4) The Kalevala
5) Dogon Creation Myth
6) Pangu (Chinese Myth)*
7) Brahmanas (Indian Myth)
7) Phanes (Greek Myth)*
8) Ylem, the Big Bang, & Emergent Universe Scenarios in Modern Physics*
9) The Dictionary of Symbols- JE Cirlot
10) Love's Body- Norman O. Brown
11) The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
12) Bubbles- Peter Sloterdijk
14) The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light- William Irwin Thompson
15) Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism & Schizophrenia- Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari
16) The Unnamable- Samuel Beckett
17) Demian- Herman Hesse