Aristophanes [writes]: "First was Chaos, Night, black Erebus, and broad Tartarus. There was neither earth, nor air, nor heaven. Black-winged Night begat the first wind-egg in the boundless bosom of Erebus. And after the cycles of the years, from this sprang Eros the desirable, whose back glistened with golden wings just like wind-swift eddies. He mated with winged night-like Chaos in deep Tartarus and hatched our race and first rose up to the light. There was no earlier race of the Deathless before Eros joined everything. And when some mixed with others, there came to be Heaven and the Ocean and the Earth, and the immortal race of blessed gods."[1]