Chaoskampfs

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A form of chaoskampf — A battle between a deity and primordial chaos, especially in ancient Near Eastern mythology and/or religion.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralrareplural of Chaoskampf

    […] while others make death what is right, for example, cosmogonic sacrifices, Chaoskampfs, redemptive death and rebirth.

    2013, Margo Kitts, “Violent Death in Religious Imagination”, in Mark Juergensmeyer, Margo Kitts, Michael K. Jerryson, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence, Oxford University Press, page 351
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    While all suggested a struggle to wrest form from some abyssal void, men seemed less likely to acknowledge how the ability to pursue their personal chaoskampfs depended upon unevenly distributed resources and socially produced tools.

    2021, Michael L. Siciliano, The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries, Columbia University Press, page 48
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