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by Micha F. Lindemans

The Basque seem not to have had an elaborate mythology, but they did believe in a universal god, Jain Goikoa. He created the three principles of life: Egia, the light of the spirit; Ekhia, the sun, the light of the world; and Begia, the light of the body. There is no evidence of an extensive cosmogony such as that of the Indo-Europeans.