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She saw foul Envy eating viper's flesh, fit food for spite.
The Envy of Aglauros

She whom I forbade to be a woman, made a goddess.
- Callisto

She was a bear, but kept her woman's hear
- Callisto

Mortal your lot - not mortal your desire
Phaeton

Fear feeds fear where knowledge fails.
Io

All things were a sea, a sea without shore.
The Flood

The rivers spread and swept away together crops, orchards, vineyards, cattle, houses, men, temples and shrines with all their holy things.

With rabid mouth he turned his lust for slaughter against the flocks, delighting still in blood. His clothes changed to coarse hair, his arms to legs - he was a wolf, yet kept some human trace, the same grey hair, the same fierce face, the same wild eyes, the same image of savagery.

Afar; men knew no shores except their own.

Formed by the great Creator, so to found a better world, perhaps.