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# Elder Scrolls Creation Myth: Anu, Padomay, and Lorkhan's Sacrifice (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 17)
- URL: https://mythicmindfellowship.com/elder-scrolls-creation-myth-anu-padomay-and-lorkhans-sacrifice-mythic-mind-games-ep-17/
- Published: 2025-10-17T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:37:35.000Z
- Author: Andrew Snyder

Mythic Mind GamesEpisode 17

# Elder Scrolls Creation Myth: Anu, Padomay, and Lorkhan’s Sacrifice (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 17)

Dr. Andrew Snyder

17 October 2025

[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDk7u3gd2VE&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)

## In this episode

The Elder Scrolls creation myth begins with Anu and Padomay (order and chaos, form and void) and cascades through emanation, limitation, and the costly making of Mundus.

This analysis sets that cosmogony beside Enuma Elish, Plato, Gnostic and Neoplatonic emanation schemes, and Christian theology: Is Lorkhan a demiurge-trickster pulling the gods toward the void, or the champion of an “ennoblement of sacrifice” that makes mortal reflection and transcendence possible? Along the way: Anuiel and Sithis, the weakening of the Aedra, men vs elves on the meaning of mortality, and why matter need not be treated as a Gnostic mistake.

### People

**Dr. Andrew Snyder**Host and speaker

### Key themes

- Lorkhan: demiurge-trickster or champion of sacrifice
- Gnostic and Neoplatonic emanation
- Enuma Elish, Plato, and Christian theology

## Chapters

1. [00:00Introduction and course info](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDk7u3gd2VE&t=0s&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
2. [01:52Order, chaos, and creation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDk7u3gd2VE&t=112s&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
3. [09:58Emanation and gnostic themes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDk7u3gd2VE&t=598s&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
4. [18:20The role of Sithis and time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDk7u3gd2VE&t=1100s&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
5. [25:20Lorkhan and Mundus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDk7u3gd2VE&t=1520s&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
6. [28:15Theological interpretations](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDk7u3gd2VE&t=1695s&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
7. [35:45Sacrifice and transcendence](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDk7u3gd2VE&t=2145s&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
8. [38:35Aedra, Daedra, and morality](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDk7u3gd2VE&t=2315s&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)
9. [40:16Longing for home](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDk7u3gd2VE&t=2416s&ref=mythicmindfellowship.com)

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- [**Elder Scrolls Cosmogony Told (Mythic Mind Games, ep. 15)**Watch the episode](https://mythicmindfellowship.com/elder-scrolls-cosmogony-told-anu-padomay-and-the-making-of-mundus-mythic-mind-games-ep-15/)

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