Storm-Swept Abyss

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It is so cool to know that the river Styx
actually is an immense abyss in outer space,
to know that myths which seemed meaningless
before relate the tales of the precession
of the equinoxes, the futile stories that
only appealed to the driest academics
are actually brimful with real meaning
and portentous significance,

I love it when the world starts to make sense,
absurd tales placed in context and situation
fulfil my most cherished ideal of universal
truth and eternal description!
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Storm-Swept Abyss

The river Styx is an immense storm-swept abyss
in outer space, the world of dead souls carried
by backtracking rivers, creating images of
astronomy - not hydraulics

The seesaw swinging of earth is the swinging of
the ecliptic, the sky with the seasons; strange
entities appear - Okeanos and Chronos
Chronos is time

Chronos‘ mate is called Ananke - Necessity
Time and Necessity circle the universe in
heavenly motions, timeless in a
moving image of eternity

Okeanos is deep-flowing, untiring and
placid, silent, deep, still, no billows
while rotating - the starry heaven

Okeanos is a swirling river, flowing on
neither sea or land but in the air above,
mythical Okeanos, remote, silent

Okeanos is the original god of heaven,
the ruler of the pole – his name
derived from heaven...

Hamlet’s Mill
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