Genesis 1:1-5- In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.

“without form” – Hebrew- “Tohu”- definitions = ” chaos, confusion, formless, meaningless, nothing, waste, emptiness”.

“void”- Hebrew -“bohu”- definitions =”emptiness”.

“darkness”- Hebrew- “chosek”- definitions = “darkness, obscurity”

In the day of the Lord’s vengeance Isaiah 34:11- “But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion (tohu), and the stones of emptiness (bohu).”

Without the light of God, there reigns a being called “Chaos”. It is the same being that inhabits a void- the ancients called this chaos a “serpent monster or dragon”. See below for some of the names in ancient cultures.

Hebrew

– Leviathan- Leviathan is a creature with the form of a sea serpent from Jewish belief, referenced in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Job, Psalms, the Book of Isaiah, the Book of Amos; it is also mentioned in the apocryphal First Book of Enoch.

Greek-Roman

– Hesiod’s genealogy of the birth of the gods (Theogony), it is said that first was Chaos (the chasm/deep), then came Gaia (earth), Tartarus (depths of the earth and Eros (desire). From Chaos came Erebus (darkness) and Nyx (Night). From Erebus came Wether (brightness) and Hemera (day). From Gaia came Uranus (sky), Ourea (Mountains) and Pontus (sea).

-Typhon- Typhon, also Typhoeus, Typhaon (Τυφάων) or Typhos (Τυφώς), was a monstrous serpentine giant and one of the deadliest creatures in Greek mythology. According to Hesiod, Typhon was the son of Gaia and Tartarus. .

-Hydra- The Lernaean Hydra or Hydra of Lerna, more often known simply as the Hydra, is a serpentine water monster in Greek and Roman mythology. Its lair was the lake of Lerna in the Argolid, which was also the site of the myth of the Danaïdes.

Arabian

Egyptian

– Apep- Apep or Apophis was the ancient Egyptian deity who embodied chaos and was thus the opponent of light and Ma’at (order/truth). He appears in art as a giant serpent.

-Isfet- Isfet or Asfet is an ancient Egyptian term from Egyptian mythology used in philosophy, which was built on a religious, social and politically affected dualism.

-Nu- Nu, feminine Naunet, is the deification of the primordial watery abyss in the Hermopolitan Ogdoad cosmogony of ancient Egyptian religion. 

-Set- Set or Seth is a god of deserts, storms, disorder, violence, and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion.

Mesopotamian

– Taimet- In the religion of ancient Babylon, Tiamat is a primordial goddess of the salt sea, mating with Abzû, the god of fresh water, to produce younger gods. She is the symbol of the chaos of primordial creation. She is referred to as a woman, and described as the glistening one.

Norse -Germanic

– Midgard Serpent- In Norse mythology, Jörmungandr, also known as the Midgard (World) Serpent, is a sea serpent, the middle child of the giantess Angrboða and Loki. 

-Nidhogg- In Norse mythology, Níðhögg or Níðhöggr is a dragon/serpent who gnaws at a root of the world tree, Yggdrasil. In historical Viking society, níð was a term for a social stigma implying the loss of honor and the status of a villain. 

Anatolian- Hittite

– Illuyanka- In Hittite mythology, Illuyanka was a serpentine dragon slain by Tarḫunz, the Hittite incarnation of the Hurrian god of sky and storm. 

Hindu- Vedic

– Vritra- Vritra is a Vedic serpent or dragon in Hinduism, the personification of drought and adversary of Indra. Vritra is identified as an Asura. Vritra was also known in the Vedas as Ahi. He appears as a dragon blocking the course of the rivers and is heroically slain by Indra.

Persian Zorostarian

-Angra Mainyu – Angra Mainyu is the Avestan-language name of Zoroastrianism’s hypostasis of the “destructive spirit/mentality” and the main adversary in Zoroastrianism either of the Spenta Mainyu, the “holy/creative spirits/mentality”, or directly of Ahura Mazda, the highest deity of Zoroastrianism.

Manichaeism

– Prince of Darkness ( this was a major religion founded in the 3rd century AD by the Persian prophet Mani (c. 216–274 AD) in the Sasanian Empire)

Japanese

– Amatsumikaboshi- In Japanese mythology, Ama-tsu-mika-boshi , also called Ame-no-kagase-o , was originally a malevolent Shinto god.

Aztec

– Cipactli- Cipactli was the first day of the Aztec divinatory count of 13 X 20 days and Cipactonal “Sign of Cipactli” was considered to have been the first diviner. In Aztec cosmology, the crocodile symbolized the earth floating in the primeval waters.

Carib/Arawaks

– Juracan-Juracán is the phonetic name given by the Spanish colonizers to the zemi or deity of chaos and disorder which the Taíno natives in Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Cuba, as well as the Island Caribs and Arawak natives elsewhere in the Caribbean, believed controlled the weather, particularly hurricanes (the latter word derives from the deity’s name).