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This is the account of when all is still silent and placid. All is silent and calm. Hushed and empty is the womb of the sky.
These, then, are the first words, the first speech. There is not yet one person, one animal, bird, fish, crab, tree, rock, hollow, canyon, meadow, or forest. All alone the sky exists.