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11 C r e T e : T H e D i k T a e a n C a V e swallows careen into the cave and out, children daring each other at dusk. Behind us the opening glows with a green light, like a smell from the past— then the dark, except for candles and their faltering shadows. We see the ledge where the baby Zeus was stowed, hidden from his father, kronos, who thought he had eaten him. We blow the candles out and stand, silent, in the stone room, the walls moving in, the air dead. absolute dark. They say that bees flew here to bring Zeus honey, that she-goats came 11 to offer him their teats. somehow the Greeks knew, even then, that under this mountain of rock, a river of cold water flows, and farther down, where stories begin, the final room is fire. ...

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