Collected Works of Xenophon

fire and earth, and the mountain, and air, and law. And some say that his name, that of the mistress, is why also? the air is borne in various ways. And to never reveal the earth as warm, but as dead in its reputation, just as again the ancient one I know. It strikes itself against the position, so that the opposition is revealed through the living creature. And at the time in which it exists until now, for the sake of its sitting alone, as if for an example. And of all the living creatures, it departs from those which are understood coincidentally, but the whole of everything and their own natures, through the three-part movements of the stars in the seasons: the spring, and the summer, and the autumn. And each of these releases a fourth, in its own year?, completing a year with the best harmony. And the sympathetic caution of nature, which makes the vivification of these incorporeal things: of fire and blood, and that of the moist and dry. And in common to both, of air. And the generation of the death of all things was nourished. It is believed that the entire body of the nature of the cosmos is completed from the sun and the moon, and its necessary parts of the container: the salt, and the fire, and the dry from the sun, and finally the airy part. And the moist is from the warm and summer air itself, and this, and the other parts being enumerated. In such a way is the body of the cosmos sympathetic, as from the things said before. To think of each of these as a god, and to have set a name and designation for each, according to their own nature for the first men because of the possession, using those things for which the earth is sight. Those on the earth, then

of heat. The spirit, then, shares in the word of the daimon divine spirit/deity through its offering. But they say the name of this is given to the living creatures, in whom the defining father exists. But it happened for God, and the most manifest thing for each one has made this innate: the father and master of the gods. And that of the mother daimon divine spirit/deity, which they say to name, thinking it to be the mother of God. And for all to whom the lineage of the earth happened, because of holding up the beginning, those who assume that these are the seeds of the mortals, not to think it is because of what is superfluous. Moreover, Athena goddess of wisdom is said by many, because neither is she the mother of reception, and to be the goddess. The time for the gods, for the naming from each one: the earth is one, and oneself, and the one who holds the truth toward witness. The earth, indeed, the fourth; Demeter goddess of agriculture, the giver of the harvest. And the ancients named the moist Oceanus primal river/water. They did not inherit it, one interpreted as earth, the other as moist nourishment. But among us, the earth as Oceanus. Artemidorus a writer on dreams/omens did not obtain it, for it is of the right and the poet Homer. It is not the birth of the gods, and the mother. But the Egyptians believe Oceanus to be the river Nile the river of Egypt among them, toward whom also the birth of the gods exists. In that state, the common islands remain. And the earth is evil, and the city has many remainings of the gods from the earth: such as Zeus, Helios, Hermes, Apollo, Ares, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite. And they say they address the air as Athena, the word being translated etymologically. And they think of this as the daughter of Zeus, and assume her to be a virgin, because of the air being incorruptible.