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the Five Greatest Genera are One
You'd Know this if you had read Proclus Commentary on the Parmenides

Philosophy as A Rite of Rebirth
Blumenberg - Work on Myth
Penrose - Road to Reality

WE WUZ GODS AND SHIT

Chapter 125. Non-Greek Theologies
The Babylonian Theology
But of the non-Greeks, while the Babylonians seem to have passed over the unique principle of all in silence, they posit the two [subsequent principles as] Tauthes and Apason, making Apason the husband of Tauthes, and make this [deity] the mother of the gods, from whom the single child is born, Moymin, the intelligible world, I think, produced from the two principles. And from the same couple, another generation proceeds, [namely] Dachee and Dochos, and then a third generation from the same couple, Kissare and Asson, from which three gods are born, An and Enlil and Aos. And a son of Aos and Daukee is Bel, which they say is the demiurge.

Persian Theology
As for the Magi and the entire Iranian race, as Eudemus writes about this, some of them call the intelligible and unifi ed universe Space (Topos), and others call it Time (Chronos), from which are differentiated either a good deity or a bad demon, or light and darkness before these, as some say. And they then themselves posit the twofold differentiated rank of the superiors after the u ndifferentiated nature, one leader of which is Horomasda, and the other of which is Areimanios.

Sidonian Theology (III 166)
The Sidonians, according to the same author, place Time (Chronos) before all, and Longing and Gloom, and when Longing and Gloom mix as two principles, then Air and Wind are born; Air they reveal as the unmixed principle of the intelligible, and Wind as the living prototype of the intelligible that arises from it, and again the egg from both of these arises as the intelligible intellect, I think. Apart from Eudemus, we fi nd the mythology of the Phoenicians in Mochus, with Aither as the fi rst principle as well as Air, these two principles from which is born Oulomus, the intelligible god itself, I think, who is the summit of the intelligible world; from which they say that Chousoros the Opener first came into Being, when [Oulomos] mated with itself, and then the egg, meaning by the latter, the intelligible intellect, whereas by the Opener, Choursoros, is meant the intelligible power, since it first differentiated the undifferentiated nature. Unless, though, after the two principles the summit is the one Wind, and the middle the two winds Lips and Notos (for they place them somehow before Oulonos), and Oulonos himself would be the intelligible intellect, and the Opener, Chousoros, is the first order after the intelligible, and the egg is heaven; for when Chousoros splits into two, heaven and earth arise, each of them being halves of him.