Roman creation myth - Roman Mythology

The Creation of the World and the Rise of the Gods

May 21, 2026October 17, 2025 by Theo Mercer

The Romans didn’t have a single creation myth. They had something more complicated — a sequence of separations, conflicts, and transfers of power that moved the world from Chaos to cosmos, and from Saturn’s Golden Age to the world Rome was built to restore.

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