Heaven

I lift up Heaven and Earth together with the plants.

Heaven stood firm, the earth stood firm, this broad atmosphere stood firm.

May Heaven and Earth scorch you together — you shall not find rest here unless longing for me.

For this old opinion filled Greece, that Caelus was mutilated by his son Saturn, and Saturn himself bound by his son Jove:

For they meant that the highest and ethereal — that is, the fiery — nature of the heaven, which of itself generated all things, was free from that part of the body which would need conjunction with another for procreating.

And if it is so, the parents of Caelus too must be held gods, Aether and Day, and their brothers and sisters, who by the ancient genealogists are named thus:

Not only have fellow-passengers of mine enjoyed the calmest of voyages:

But in cases of this nature the indications furnished by heaven must also have no small influence on your verdict.

they would be showing that here, in the signs from heaven, was to be found the clearest confirmation of their charge.

Of noble parents was I born, the daughter of Night, sprung from the blood of Ouranos;

But when she was about to bring forth the goddess bright-eyed Athena, Zeus craftily deceived her with cunning words and put her in his own belly, as Earth and starry Heaven advised.

Of good heroes, your father Heaven thought — the creator of Indra became the best craftsman.

You are great, O Indra — the earth followed your dominion in homage, heaven thought of you with generosity.

That which all the immortals fashioned by thought, that which Father Dyaus, the begetter, made true and watered.

But some seem to themselves to interpret elegantly, in a physiological way, by allegorical argumentation, that Saturn is Time, and therefore Heaven and Earth his parents, as themselves having no origin, and therefore furnished with a sickle because by time all things are cut apart, and therefore a devourer of his own because all things put forth from himself he consumes back into himself.