No record of Palas survived its colossal fall; no account of its amaranthine splendor, its impossible size and arcadian conditions, is firsthand - no objective distinction can be made between the myth and the experience of that ancient sanctuary of man.
Equally unreliable is the assertion that the gods then lived in accord, with their subjects, with one another, or that they were conflated; and it is the competing theory that to historians is less incredible:
That from the Deep Sea came the first gods, a fugitive kind which named themselves the Apostates, and the aftermath of their settlement was the Tempest. So great was the scale of this epiclysm that even its specifics were annihilated; what relationship between Apostates and their subsequent ectypes, how no vestiges are found of a state so pervasive, why no further such allotriomes have since impinged us - these are the so-called enigmament of our era's advent.
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