3 A place of sound before syllable, symbol before alphabet, Om before Word.
4 A place of primordial, when language was fossil poetry, the brilliant picture before the deadest of word.

Sumero-Babylonian creation myth claims the formless body of their goddess Tiamut responsible for the birth of the universe. “She was the Abyss or the Deep before creation”, according to Hebrew myth, the “elemental formlessness between the destruction of one universe and the creation of the next.” Later transformed into the Spirit of God by patriarchal Biblical myth (Genesis 1:2), “Chaldean sources of the Bible myth said the brooding creative spirit that brought order out of chaos was the Goddess”.

The Mother of Mantras, matrikamanta, was “the Great Goddess’s creative word Om, a reference to her own primordial pregnancy which gave birth to the universe.” “This was the primordial Logos, ‘the supreme syllable, the mother of all sound.’” “Om was Alpha, the letter of creation, repeated again as the final letter of destruction, Omega, which means literally great Om.