Pherecydes of Syros Quotes

Pherecydes of Syros was a Greek thinker of the early sixth century BC, traditionally counted as the teacher of Pythagoras and the author of the first Greek prose work on the gods and the origin of the world, the Pentemychos or Five Recesses. The fragments preserved by Diogenes Laertius and other doxographers show a cosmogony in which the primordial figures of Zas, Chronos, and Chthonie produce the world out of an originally unformed seed-time, and in which the first marriage between Zas and Chthonie is celebrated by the weaving of the embroidered cloth that becomes the visible cosmos. The quotes below are attributed to Pherecydes of Syros, organized by topic.