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Rh 🇬🇷 see Or.] 🇬🇷 [the sequel on p. 124 below].

The other versions are from Eudemos (a pupil of Aristotle) and a native writer Mōchos: they are preserved in the following passage of Damascius (cap. 125; ed. Kopp, p. 385):

🇬🇷 (i.e. Eudemos) 🇬🇷 [rd. 🇬🇷 with Gn. 1. It contains, however, in each of its recensions, the idea of the world-egg—a very widespread cosmological speculation to which no Babylonian analogies have been found, but which is supposed to underlie the last clause of Gn. 1$2$. In Sanchuniathon, the union of 'gloomy, breath-like Air' with 'turbid dark Chaos' produces a miry watery mixture called 🇬🇷, in which all things originate, and first of all certain living beings named 'watchers of heaven'. These appear to be the constellations, and it is said that they are 'shaped like the form of an egg,' i.e., probably, are arranged in the sky in that form. In Eudemos, the first principles are 🇬🇷, 🇬🇷, and 🇬🇷: the two latter give birth to 🇬🇷 and 🇬🇷, and from the union of these again