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Enceladus’ racing, vengeful speech 3⁄4 anti-poem and antithesis of Apollonian truth and beauty 3⁄4 tries to overcome Oceanus’ natural-law song by dismissing it as “baby words” (Hyperion: 2:314). Yet, naturally, in Delos, the waves of his kingly domain, the dancing sea, haunt every cave, every recess with its ebbing truth, a livid truth that will echo, resonate and permeate every crevice within the Titans’ dark den of woe. Indeed, Oceanus’ truth is revolutionary; it encircles itself by this very suffusing and returns to itself, singing thus singing, its reversal, an undercurrent unbeknownst and barely perceptible to our senses that muses, secretly, “first in might should be first in beauty.”
Oceanus’ sea-song of beauty and might embraces Heraclitus’ emblematic flux and fire vision: “everything flows, nothing stands still” 3⁄4 Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει5 3⁄4 and "war is father of all, king of all.”6 It is natural law and historical necessity, with its oceanic tides, that supports the Olympians 3⁄4 impelling motion and change, coming into being and perishing away 3⁄4 that casts an immense shadow over memory’s timeline that entails rebellion, fall and succession as a process
5 Plato. Complete Works. Cratylus. Ed. John M. Cooper. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, 1997.
6 Heraclitus adds that war makes of some gods, of some men, of some slaves, of some free and that war is universal; that strife is justice and that all things come into being and pass away through strife. Waterfield, Robin. The First Philosophers. The Pre-Socratics and the Sophists. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 32-48
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