Ep. 7 - The Deep

From the swirling waters of Tiamat to the Spirit hovering over the face of the Deep, this episode traces humanity's oldest creation stories in the primordial waters and asks what they can teach us today. What might it mean to co-create with the unknown depths - this fertile source from which all life and emergent becoming arise?

Sources 

Genesis 1:1-9 in the Bible 
Class notes from Introduction to the Hebrew Bible at Harvard Divinity School, Prof. Michael Coogan 
Cosmic Ocean myths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ocean https://www.amacad.org/publication/daedalus/water-mythology
Enuma Elish translation: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/225/enuma-elish---the-babylonian-epic-of-creation---fu/
The Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming by Catherine Keller 
In Search of Now: The Science of the Present Moment,  by Jo Marchant as quoted in the Marginalian https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/30/jo-marchant-now/
John O'Donohue’s poem “In Praise of Water” in his book To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings

Reflection by Rev. Tiffany Curtis;
Original Music by Elizabeth Fagan;
Produced by Kirsten Rudberg