2.2 Examples of the first group
Chinese mythologies believe that at the beginning there was the cosmic egg from which the infant God P'an Ku resided for almost an eternity while it floated on a formless sea of chaos. When it hatched, P'an Ku grew so much that the top half egg shell became the sky, and the bottom half the earth. P'an Ku died when 18,000 years old to give birth to our world. His blood became the rivers, his eyes the sun and the moon, and his voice the thunder.

In Greek mythologies, the universe started in a state of chaos. This state is often described as an ocean; the Babylonian and Japanese mythologies believe it too.

In Egyptian mythologies, the Sun God Ra came out of a floating egg while the Polynesian's thought that he came out of a coconut shell.

In these myths, like in many others and in some religions, the universe was created from nothing.