Before the creation of life as we know it, the human being finds himself in the form of mythological figures, merges with the surrounding elements, becomes an instrument for nature, joins with it creating a landscape far from time. In stoic philosophy the term palingenesis is used to indicate the cyclical "restitution" or "re-establishment" of the cosmos after its recurrent destruction through fire. "This element takes on the most diverse forms: from the condensation of the original fire comes the sea, and from one part of the sea was generated the earth. Everything changes continuously and everything is transformed into another; everything flows, everything is a continuous becoming".