"The essences of the Gods never came into existence"
I find this particularly interesting in light of the Greek pantheon's "family tree" that shows successive generations of gods (and yes, I see that italicized word doing double duty). This ties in, in my reading of it, to the notion of"younger" gods being equated with "older" ones. I asked a question on Magic Monday once about the wording in the Orphic Hymn to Saturn and it was pointed out to me that Prometheus can also be understood as Saturn. So, this description of the gods as beings who never came into existence, when used as a lens to understand various gods' "birth stories," might open up a deeper reading of who earlier/later gods are relative to each other/themselves and the First Cause.
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I appreciate having the two translations (I have Taylor's) because the version you've posted here made this section much more comprehensible to me than Taylor's: "just as thoughts are not separate from mind nor acts of knowledge from the soul."
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Date: 2021-11-12 05:03 am (UTC)I find this particularly interesting in light of the Greek pantheon's "family tree" that shows successive generations of gods (and yes, I see that italicized word doing double duty). This ties in, in my reading of it, to the notion of"younger" gods being equated with "older" ones. I asked a question on Magic Monday once about the wording in the Orphic Hymn to Saturn and it was pointed out to me that Prometheus can also be understood as Saturn. So, this description of the gods as beings who never came into existence, when used as a lens to understand various gods' "birth stories," might open up a deeper reading of who earlier/later gods are relative to each other/themselves and the First Cause.
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I appreciate having the two translations (I have Taylor's) because the version you've posted here made this section much more comprehensible to me than Taylor's: "just as thoughts are not separate from mind nor acts of knowledge from the soul."