personifies-cosmic-chaos

Lotan · salience 0.95

“Lotan is the great serpent of Canaanite mythology as the Ugaritic texts preserve it: a seven-headed aquatic dragon, the personification of chaos, written in the consonantal script as ltn.”

Apep · salience 0.9

“this endless cycle made Apep less a monster to be defeated once and for all than a permanent cosmic principle, the personification of isfet (chaos, non-being, disorder) standing in eternal opposition to maat (truth, order, cosmic balance) that Ra and the pharaoh alike were charged with upholding.”