And so the rival theory: the cult of the volcanoes. Water annihilated by Hades’ heat. A more violent idea, where it is incendiary lava that produces the soil. That the planet exists thanks to an incessant cycle of eruptions and cooling that guarantees its perpetuity. The centre of the world ablaze. The Earth designs its parts in the seething forge of the underworld and spits them out onto the surface via volcanoes. Matter comes out in the form of lava, cools, settles; rain and wind guide it back down to the coasts. As unrecognisable seabed, it continues to fall: gravity draws the minerals back into the inextinguishable combustion of the planetary centre, to the infernal laboratory where everything gets readulterated while awaiting another eruption. Cyclical, impetuous: this is the igneous factory of worlds that the vulcanists whipped up.”
Two Sherpas, Sebastián Martínez Daniell
10 Saturday Feb 2024
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