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Quotation from The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum
“He sang how at first Earth and Heaven and Sea were all mixed and mingled together. There was neither Light nor Darkness then, but only a Dimness. This was Chaos.”
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, Part I, V: The Argo (The Beginning of Things) (Project Gutenberg #2395)
Orpheus sings to the heroes on the first morning of the voyage, beginning with the origin of the world.
Citation: "He sang how at first Earth and Heaven and Sea were all mixed and mingled together. There was neither Light nor Darkness then, but only a Dimness. This was Chaos." — Padraic Colum, The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, Part I, V: The Argo (The Beginning of Things) (Project Gutenberg #2395). (id colum-the-golden-fleece-q2)
Portrait: PadraicColum, Unknown, Public domain.
