Ananke:“Originally there was Water [Okeanos?], he [Orpheus] says, and Mud [Tethys the nurse of all?], from which Ge (the Earth) solidified: he posits these two as first principles, water and earth …
The one before the two, however, he leaves unexpressed, his very silence being an intimation of its ineffable nature. The third principle after the two
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