1 THE PELASGIAN GREEK MYTH

In the beginning, Eurynome (the goddess of all things), rose naked from chaos but found nothing substantial for her feet to rest upon.

Therefore divided the sea from the sky, dancing lonely upon its waves, She danced towards the south, and the wind set in motion behind her seemed something new and apart with which to begin a work of creation.

Wheeling about, she caught hold of this north wind, rubbed it between her hands,

and behold! the great serpent of Ophion, grown lustful, coiled about those divine limbs and was moved to couple with her. Now, the north wind, which is also called Boreas, fertilizes; which is why mares often turn their hindquarters to the wind and breed foals without the aid of a stallion.

So Eurynome likewise got a child.

Next, she took the form of a dove, brooding on the waves and, in due process of time, laid the universal egg. At her bidding, coiled seven times about this egg, until it hatched and split into two. Out tumbled all the things that exist, her children: sun, moon, planets, stars, the earth with its mountains and rivers, trees, herbs, and living creatures.

Eurynome and Ophion made their home upon Mount Olympus, where he vexed her by claiming to be the maker of the universe. Forthwith, she bruised his head with her heel, kicked out his teeth, and banished him to the dark caves below the earth.

Next, the goddess created the seven planetary powers, setting a Titaness and a Titan over each.

Theia and Hyperion for the sun;

Phoebe and Atlas for the moon;

Dione and Crius for Mars;

Metis and Coeus for Mercury;

Themis and Eurymedon for Jupiter;

Tethys and Oceanus for Venus;

Rhea and Cronus for saturn.

But the first man was Pelasgus, ancestor of the Pelasgians; he sprang from the soil of Arcadia, followed by certain others, whom he taught to make huts and feed upon acorns and sew pig-skin tunics such as what poor folk still wear in Euboea and Phocis.

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This is based on an archaic religious system.