(54)
But the air sank down upon the earth with its long roots. R. P. 171 a.
(55)
Sea the sweat of the earth. R. P. 170 b.
(56)
Salt was solidified by the impact of the sun's beams.
(57)
On it (the earth) many heads sprung up without necks and arms wandered bare and bereft of shoulders. Eyes strayed up and down in want of foreheads. R. P. 173 a.
(58)
Solitary limbs wandered seeking for union.
(59)
But, as divinity was mingled still further with divinity, these things joined together as each might chance, and many other things besides them continually arose.
(60)
Shambling creatures with countless hands.
(61)
Many creatures with faces and breasts looking in different directions were born; some, offspring of oxen with faces of men, while others, again, arose as offspring of men with the heads of oxen, and creatures in whom the nature of women and men was mingled, 5furnished with sterile[1] parts. R. P. 173 b.
(62)
Come now, hear how the Fire as it was separated caused the night-born shoots of men and tearful women to arise; for my tale is not off the point nor uninformed. Whole-natured forms first arose from the earth, having a portion both of water and
- ↑ Reading στείροις with Diels.
