Expulsion from Eden by Thomas Cole (1828)

Hesiod was a simple man who was deemed worthy by the Muses.

He was chosen to tell the story of how the Gods came to be, their origin and relation to each other (Theogony).

Even though it is Hesiod's voice that hymns the story, it is the immortal muses that speak through him.

Hesiod never takes credit for his knowledge and continually praises the muses and reminds us that they are the authors of his Theogony.

It is basically the Gods hymning their own story, their perspective.

Chaos is the source and beginning of all.
Not even the Gods themselves know its nature or if there was something before it. Chaos is the Great Unknown and for reasons known only to itself came forward the primeval cosmic forces/entities of existence.

Evola and Nietzche wrote about the denial of rationalism/intellectualism/ too, sometimes this gets misconstrued as that we should not use our minds and deny logical reasoning. Logical reasoning is a tool to understand the great but not how we get there. Instead what Evola/Nietzche etc meant was to reject the rationalist materialist movements of the 19th century and early 20th century, (aka marxism, liberalism, freud) the worldviews and scientists that tried to say a man was better simply because of material goods, or because of his own personal comfort.

We reject all efforts to externalize guilt or rationalize away personal responsibility. A modern man looks back in horror to his not-so-ancient ancestors who knew that the reason his army lost was because they had sinned and God had given victory to the holier side. The modern man cannot stand the notion that he is the one at fault and that it is his own inadequacies that cause him suffering. He does not claim ownership of his Life. Traditional man did not need constant encouragement to reassure his ego; he had responsibilities to fulfill and a sacred duty to fulfill them to the best of his ability—not to do 'just enough' to be satisfactory in his own view or even that of other mere men.

“Like the preclassical Greeks, the ancient Romans were extremely religious, with a kind of animism in which the whole world was experienced as ensouled. Each mountain and lake had its spirit; each tree, each family, home, and hearth was inhabited by an unseen power. All activities were sacralized, ranging from war and harvest to childbirth, prophecy, and the common acts of daily life.”
― The Golden Thread, Joscelyn Godwin

Image: The Visit of a Sick Child to the Temple of Aesculapius by John William Waterhouse

"War is sacred like death, and like death, gives access to a holier life, and a higher ideal."

- Giuseppe Mazzini

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“My ancestors who are in the heavens or pure lands watch over me, the ones that are animals or people are still with me on earth, and the ones who are ghosts, asuras or in the hell realms are the beneficiaries of my practice”

-Paraphrased from a comment of a daoist-buddhist friend

"Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why Heaven and Earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves. This is how they are and to continue and endure.

Therefore, the sage puts his own person last, and yet it is found in the foremost place; he treats his person as if it were foreign to him, and yet that person is preserved. Is it not because he has no personal and private ends, that therefore such ends are realized?

The highest excellence is like that of water. The excellence of water always in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving to the contrary, the low place which all men dislike. Hence its way is near to that of the Tao.

The excellence of residence is in the suitability of the place; that of the mind is in abysmal stillness; that of associations is in their being with the virtuous; that of government is in its securing good order; that of the conduct of affairs is in its ability; and that of the initiation of any movement is in its timeliness."

- Lao Tzŭ, The Tao Te Ching

"The Tao produces all things and nourishes them; it produces them and does not claim them as its own; it does all, and yet does not boast of it; it presides over all, and yet does not control them. This is what is called 'the mysterious Quality' of the Tao.

The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty space for the axle that the use of the wheel depends. Clay is fashioned into vessels; but it is on their empty hollowness, that their use depends. The door and windows are cut out from the walls to form an apartment; but it is on the empty space within, that its use depends. Therefore, what has a positive existence serves for profitable adaptation, and what has not that for actual usefulness."

- Lao Tzŭ, The Tao Te Ching