From the Void of Chaos, to the Primeval Constructions
A book by Thomas (Tomazo) Pagonis.
Brought to you, ... by Practitioner’s Book Avenue.
Εν αρχή ήν το Χάος.
In the dark void of non-existence, where neither time nor space had yet taken shape, ... there was Chaos!
... Chaos was not disorder, but rather a state without state:
... a vast potential containing everything, even creation itself, before creation even existed.
The Traveller of Myths, an imaginary character born of Pagonis’s imagination, studies the Theogony and decides to journey into the myths themselves.
He sees Chaos as an endless chasm from which all things emerged, ... an infinite abyss that held within it the first beings:
Gaia, Tartarus, and above all, Eros, the force of attraction and the union of matter and energy.
Within Chaos, ... he claims, slept the seeds of all that would ever be, even the elements of Mendeleev’s table.
But without Eros, they would have remained silent, unawakened, unshaped.
Then came Gaia, broad-breasted, the secure foundation of all things; and Tartarus, the shadow within her depths.
And from Chaos were born the shadowed Nyx and the absolute darkness of Erebus.
Then, through Nyx’s parthenogenesis, the Cosmos was filled with the calamities that still make humankind tragic:
... Geras, old age; Thanatos, death, and worst of all, Eris, ... discord!
But Night, in the gentle embrace of Philotes — in affection — joined with the Darkness of Erebus, ... and gave birth to the bright Aether and the radiant Day.
Proving that whenever we see shadows, somebody, somewhere, is enlightened.
but above Chaos, Gaia, and Tartarus moves Eros, radiant and unseen , .. always the most beautiful of the immortal gods.
loosening the limbs of all, conquering the mind and counsel of gods and men.
He is not a creator in the religious sense, but the cosmic need, ... the will that unites, shapes, and gives life.
Without Eros, Chaos would still be an abyss of sleeping atoms;
there would be no stars, no seas, no poets, no lovers.
And the Traveller of Myths, the rebel born of imagination and the constructive error of his creator who ment him to be a character in a noverl, ...would not exist to tell you this story.
Ordo ab Chao — Order from Chaos — as the later storytellers would say.
And thanks to Eros, the unshaped world began to breathe.
This book, the first in the series, explores the first days of the Theogony:
the rise and fall of Uranus,
the rise and fall of Cronus,
the first and the second conspiracies of Gaia,
and above all — the Titanomachy,
the mother of all wars.
The Traveller will describe the initiation of Hesiod by the Muses, the birth of Aphrodite, the cunning of Cronus, and the leadership of Zeus.
he claims he was an "eye-witness"
And in the next book, The Olympian Gods or The Gods of the Mortals, as the Traveller calls them — the story will unfold upon Olympus… the sacred mountain where the gods dwell.
