A startled light arose from the wastes of Chaos and became the goddess,
Eurynome. She danced across the edge of nothingness and the path of her
dancing became the margins of sea and sky. The North Wind pursued her as she
fled, dancing. The West Wind and the South Wind and the East Wind joined the
hunt; they surrounded her and became the coils of the Universal Serpent, Ophion . She was a prisoner of these coils and they
closed about her. She turned herself into a white bird and flew away. She
nested in the sky and laid a clutch of silver eggs. which were the sun and the
earth and the planets and all the stars that stud the sky. Upon the earth were
trees, flowers, birds, beasts, and man. Eurynome means "far wanderer," the
first name given to the moon. Ophion means "moon-serpent." And long before
there were any gods, the ancient ones believed in the all-mother, the
moon-goddess.
This text was taken from Gods, Demigods & Demons, An Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology, by Benard Evslin, copyright 1975, published by Scholastic Book Services inc.