Nariana
Hm. I suppose you are right in a sense. I kind of understand, but could you break it down a tad more? Gosh, I picked a great topic this week!
It's like this, Chaos= Messy room. Cosmos= Clean Room.
For some people Chaos is a bad thing. They can't find anything in there so they need Cosmos(Order/Clean Room) to be able to find everything.
However the opposite is also true. For some people Chaos is a good thing. Even though the room to an outsider looks so messy it's impossible to think that something could be found- the person that lives there needs the Chaos to find anything in that room.
So, if you toss the person that needs Chaos into a Cosmos Room-they won't be able to find anything. And are usually quite upset about this.
Now, to apply it in Greek/Sailor Moon terms. Here's what I dug up from Encyclopedia Mythica:
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Chaos is from the Greek word Khaos, meaning "gaping void". There are many explanations as to who or what Chaos is, but most theories state that it was the void from which all things developed into a distinctive entity, or in which they existed in a confused and amorphous shape before they were separated into genera. In other words, Chaos is or was "nothingness." Though some ancient writers thought it was the primary source of all things, other writers tell of Gaia (Earth) being born from Chaos without a mate, along with Eros and Tartarus. Then from Gaia came Uranus (Heaven or Sky) which gave us Heaven and Earth.
Chaos has been described as the great void of emptiness within the universe from which Eros came and it was he who gave divine order and also perfected all things. In later times it was written that Chaos was a confused shapeless mass from which the universe was developed into a cosmos, or harmonious order. For instance, Hesiod's Theogony says that Erebus and Black Night (Nyx) were born of Chaos, and Ovid the Roman writer described Chaos as an unordered and formless primordial mass. The first Metamorphoses reads, "rather a crude and indigested mass, a lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, of jarring seeds and justly Chaos named."
The Roman writer Ovid gave Chaos its modern meaning; that of an unordered and formless primordial mass. ^ That in itself isn't evil.
Chaos in the manga is also not 'evil'. Because it's wants are quite straight forward. It wants to become a Star. It also told Sailor Moon that everyone she has ever fought were really her 'brothers and sisters' which of whom she and the Senshi have all killed.
They were all born from Chaos and were suppose to seek out their counterparts.
Cosmos on the other hand in herself isn't that good either. Because she -did- run away she basically abandoned not only the fight but everything else. Letting Disorder reign. Meaning, she's not doing her job.
From what I've read the Definition of Cosmos is-
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1. The universe regarded as an orderly, harmonious whole.
2. An ordered, harmonious whole.
3. Harmony and order as distinct from chaos. Though the concept of Cosmos is just that.
... xD; I ramble.
But the point is either or could be Good- what benefits us. Or 'Evil' - what doesn't benefit us.
Cosmos is seen generally as 'Good'. But it doesn't make it necessarily good. It just means that on the grand scale of things- it's all in order and working very well.
Chaos, though generally consider 'evil' or 'bad' isn't always so. Such as the creation of a planet, or a sun or a black hole- things like that are actually random and chaotic when it occurs. BUT because of those random occurrences we have what is a mish mash of good things.
v.v; I don't know if any of that made sense.... but that's how I see it. Kinda like light and darkness. For light to be possible there must be darkness, for darkness to be possible there has to be light.
And Nehellenia actually said it to Queen Serenity in the Dream arc. That they were one and the same. Serenity's Light and Nehellenia was Dark.
Chaos said that both are drawn to each other and neither one could exist without the other.
That's what Galaxia and Cosmos originally found so frustrating. They -both- wanted to destroy both sides of the specturm. Therefore no more wars and no more deaths.
What both had forgotten was that if you knock them both out, there's absolutely nothingness and in a way Chaos still gets to win because when you take both out of the equation and what makes the universe as it is-well... There's literally nothing.
Sailor Moon then in the manga, tells Chibi Chibi (Cosmos) that if she destroyed the cauldron- or even tried to (Because I don't believe she could do that by herself to be honest.) - then there's no more stars to be born. Which means all the people that Chibi Chibi (Cosmos) lost in the future would never be born in the first place. She might not even be born and there won't be hope for any future.
(Also like to add, I think that the Cauldron would just 'relocate' or maybe just start over again even if by some extreme slim chance, they destroyed it. )
o.o; but..yeah... that's all I think really. Don't get me started on my 'There's a LOT of Cauldrons out there~!' theory xD;
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