Before the name of Heaven,
before the name of Earth,
Nothing moved in nothing.
The waters of the sea were salt;
chaos moved in them,
Chaos was the other of the waters.No field was formed, no m wash was to be seen;
The gods were none of them called into being;
None bore a name, no destinies were ordained;
Chaos she coiled and the seas were salt.Then came the names of things.
Then were born the gods.
Brightly burst in Heaven, writhing in the Earth,
Dank and cold and moving in the deeps below. ...
— from The Lies of Iolithae Septimian, provenance unknown