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The word comes from Latin 'Chaos' and Greek 'Khaos' meaning an 'empty void'. Other derivations are translated as 'a time of utter chaos' and from a theological point of view 'the void at the beginning of creation' in a version of Genesis. The Old English version in 'ginian' meaning utter confusion.

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The Greek myth is of Chaos and the creation, the dark silent abyss from which all things came into existence. Chaos generated the solid mass of Earth from which arose a cloud filled heaven. Later it was believed that Chaos was the formless matter from which the cosmos, or harmonious matter, was created.

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