The world began in the likeness of an egg, and the Wind and Ananke encircling the egg serpent-fashion like a wreath or a belt then began to constrict nature. As it tried to squeeze all the matter with greater force, it divided the world into the two hemispheres, and after that the atoms sorted themselves out, the lighter and finer ones in the universe floating above and becoming the Bright Air and the most rarefied Wind, while the heaviest and dirtiest have veered down, become the Earth, both the dry land and the fluid waters. And the atoms move by themselves and through themselves within the revolution of the Sky and the Stars, everything still being driven round by the serpentiform wind