IN THE BARE BEGINNING
In the bare beginning
Back before the before
Before there was an Earth
Before there was a core.
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The Goddess of All Things
Eurynome her name
Rose naked from Chaos
Since, nothing's been the same.
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Nowhere to put her feet
She split the sea and sky
Dancing lonely on waves
She sparked the air on high.
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Dancing towards the south
She set wind in motion
Something new and apart
She'd use for Creation.
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Wheeling about she caught
Hold to this North Wind
Rubbing it 'twixt her hands
Behold! a great serpent.
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She danced to warm herself
Wildly and more wildly
Till the snake grown lustful
Coiled, to put it mildly.
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About these divine limbs
Ophion the snake wrapped
He tried to hold it in
But something in him snapped.
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Now this Wind fertilizes
As would a rapscallion
That's how mares breed foals
Without aid of stallion.
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Taking form of a dove
On waves to rest her legs
In due process of time
She laid Universal Egg.
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The snake coiled about the egg
Until it split in two
Out tumbled all existence
Sun, planets, stars, and moon.
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The Earth, too, tumbled out
With its mountains and rivers
The trees, the plants, the herbs
All the living creatures.
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Eurynome and he
Made home Mount Olympus
Where Ophion vexed her
By claiming what was his.
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Where would she be less him
What contribution hers
With all his coiling
He'd authored the Universe!
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So his teeth she kicked out
And banished him to caves
The darkest ones below earth
Now she gets all the raves.
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