"world egg" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1868, Johann Peter Lange, Genesis, Or, the First Book of Moses, page 181:",
          "text": "With this shaping of chaos into a world-egg, or earth-sphere, arises then, according to the representation of these cosmogonies, the first being, the 'first-born,' or the first man.\nIn Africa a Dogon myth says that in the beginning, a world egg divided into two birth sacs, containing sets of twins fathered by the creator god, Amma, on the maternal egg.",
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          "ref": "2010, David Adams Leeming, Creation Myths of the World: Parts I-II, page 313:",
          "text": "The Mande people say that in the beginning the creator placed various kinds of seed in the world egg.",
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        "A mythological motif, found in the creation myths of many cultures and civilizations, of an egg from which the universe or some primordial being is \"hatched\"."
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        "(mythology) A mythological motif, found in the creation myths of many cultures and civilizations, of an egg from which the universe or some primordial being is \"hatched\"."
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          "word": "cosmic egg"
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          "sense": "mythological motif",
          "word": "alkumuna"
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      "word": "alkumuna"
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