The Orphic Rhapsodic Theogeny

The world began with a sort of watery darkness or abyss. Two deities in the form of winged serpent creatures, called ageless time, Hronos ageros, and necessity, anonke, had sex. Hronos then generated two primordial substances, or places, or things: Ithir and chaus. Both of these new additions are still engulfed in the blackest night. There's no light. In the egg developed fannes, also called eros or protogonos, which means firstborn. And so he's able, through the act of having sex with himself, to give birth to the various gods. The creation of the more familiar