“…For the Sumerians, the beginning of the World is both materially resplendent and organized, and is orderly from the outset, yet it tends towards collapse. It would be foolish of us, therefore, to think that Hesiod's Theogony is the source of all these ideas of how creation comes about and what happens to Chaos (Pender 2009). Weingart and Maasen (1997: 479-80) are aware that Hesiod's conception of Chaos as 'not-form' and as always in the realm of the 'un- ' (e.g., unformed, unthought, unfilled, unordered) does not produce every variant of Chaos.…”