Chapter 18‘Of the true beginning, the beginning of the time that was before this time, nothing is truly known, though we sense that the world that was then is remembered, albeit dimly, at the heart of our knowledge. And too, by some others, though they are strange, and elsewhere.
‘But from the forming of this time, from the time of the fading of the Great Heat and the great remaking, we remember much.
‘The shaping of the valleys and the mountains by those who were formed of the essence of the beginning, we remember. The filling of the rivers and the lakes and the oceans, we remember. The coming of the Movers in their many forms, we remember.
‘And the Great Evil, we remember. For that, too, was of the essence of the beginning.’
There was a long silence. Many of the words that came to Fa
