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Chapter XXXI.—Hesiod’s Cosmogony.
“But to this Hesiod adds, that after chaos
the heaven and the earth were made immediately, from which he says that
those eleven were produced (and sometimes also he speaks of them as
twelve) of whom he makes six males and five females. And these
are the names that he gives to the males: Oceanus, Cœus,
Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Chronos, who is also called Saturn.
Also the names of the females are: Theia, Rhea, Themis,
Mnemosyne, Tethys.869
| 869 [Comp. chap. 17 and
Homily VI. 2.—R.] | And these
names they thus interpret allegorically. They say that the number
is eleven or twelve: that the first is nature itself, which also
they would have to be called Rhea, from Flowing; and they say that the other ten are her accidents,
which also they call qualities; yet they add a twelfth, namely Chronos,
who with us is called Saturn, and him they take to be time.870
| 870 [Comp. Homily VI. 5,
12.—R.] | Therefore they assert that Saturn
and Rhea are time and matter; and these, when they are mixed with
moisture and dryness, heat and cold, produce all
things.
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