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.