According to the Baal Cycle, their universe was not created ex nihilo by a solitary deity but emerged from primordial chaos through the actions of a divine family—El the Father, Baal the Storm, Anat the Warrior, Mot the Devourer—whose struggles and alliances shaped the heavens, the earth, and the underworld.

Unlike the systematic theologies of Western religions, Shinto cosmology presents a world saturated with divinity; where kami (gods, spirits, and sacred forces) inhabit every mountain, river, tree, and rock, where the boundary between the human and divine is permeable, and where the Japanese islands themselves were born from the union of primordial deities.