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CHAOS. What is it really? In
WH40K, its an umbrella term for all of the "beyond-this-dimension" stuff, like Psykers, and chaos "gods", etc. The biggest and most true mythos of this universe is of the 4 chaos gods, who have taken up arms in the Milky Way Galaxy. There's no denying them, you've all sensed their presence. Of course the Imperium hides the full truth from its public, so, for anyone under their regime, "extra curricular" learning is required for you to understand just how much bigger the world really is. But, regardless of your upbringing, you all know in your gut that there is much more out there than meets the eye.
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We play the ultimate game. The game is called duality. For, in this life, in this dimension - in this particular reality, you can, and
will, break down anything and everything surrounding yourself, for better or worse. On this limited plane of existence, you reside in that body of yours, for the most part. So, in your life? Everything other than you and your physical form, is of a secondary concern. Your self comes first! Your surroundings, are under your strict scrutiny. This is your world, and you are in control.... and, for a fee, you can potentially control it all! Muhahaha **<--- whisperings of chaos
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People have a choice. Chaos is the primary result of people serving themselves to the detriment of the universe. The word god is supposed to be used to represent the universe as a whole; when you pray to "god", its supposed to mean that you pray to the universe, you pray to the true components of real life, instead of surrendering to a false prophet.
Fast forward 40 thousand years in the future, and this (
WH40K) galaxy has become so acquainted with its own chaos, that new realities have been integrated into its populace. The Old Ones who fostered this galaxy fell spectacularly, so life here has gone totally psycho. People are crazy because Chaos has gained enough mass to replace god. Hell, we've played the game so hard and far (looking at you, Eldar!) that chaos has fething EXPLODED! Its so big, we've been able to divide it into multiple sections and categorize certain parts. Its ridiculous.
And so we pray for the Emperor's help....
..... and yet.... the Emperor is claiming to be God, as so many before him have. Is he truly serving us and our combined universe? Or just himself? People can have multiple reasons for their actions, but, mathematically, you can add up the sum total of their soul's energetic orientation: Ultimately the soul spark is either a positive charge (service to the universe) or a negative charge (service to one's self) in the overworld, in the higher dimensions of this vast universe, on the much more pure, energetic level.
In the lower planes of existence, we can separate, and wage war on each other. This is duality. This is the game.
But a lot of energy has consolidated and taken form, and has created its own reality. Hence chaos.
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What is the original meaning of Chaos?
Currently, when someone says something is chaotic means that it has no order at all: that everything is upside down, jumbled or messy. However, this wasn’t the original meaning Greeks gave to this word.
One of the first writers to mention this term was Hesiod (flourished ca. 700 b.C.) in one of his chief works: The Teogony, where the author talks about the birth of gods and natural personifications. All those creatures actually came out from a huge void or an abyss full of emptiness; a so-called initial gap which separated the two primary elements that later on gave birth to the rest of the elements of the Universe: Earth (Gea) and Heaven (Uranos).
There is a Greek verb that is indeed related to the χάος (chaos) root. Let’s check it out: χαίνω (chaíno) or χάσκω (chásko) means “to open”, “to open one’s mouth”, “to yawn”. Even “to open one’s mouth in order to talk”. Hence the word χάος (chaos) and meaning Hesiodus gave to it as “void gap” from which all the elements of the Cosmos were born. (In fact, the word κόσμος (kósmos) in Greek means “order”, or world in which all things have its own boundaries and can be easily distinguished from one another. This is, in fact, the exact opposite to chaos, where everything is formless and indefinite!)
The Greeks actually used another word to refer to “desorder”, that wasn’t at all related to the word “chaos”, which was ἀταραξία (ataraxía). A term whidely used in philosophy works such as in Epicurus, who described a state of mind that was utterly disordered and thus didn’t allow the person that was under its effects to reach happiness.
The current meaning which we use today as “utter confusion” was first coined from the Ovid Metamorphoses, where Ovid describes chaos as “a
raw confused mass, nothing but inert matter, badly combined discordant atoms of things, confused in the one place.” (A. S. Kline’s version). This semantical shift was also extended from the theological use of the word.
Even though, if we take a close look to the first words of the Genesis, we will encounter the same original meaning the Greeks gave to the word chaos: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty.”
To sum up, whenever someone says something “is chaotic”, we will have to wonder weather it’s messy or empty!
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This was taken from a blog, from this guy:
https://micromythos.wordpress.com/2015/01/17/what-is-the-original-meaning-of-chaos/
I thought it was pretty cool.
