ABSTRACT
The sea has closed over the king and queen, and they have gone back to the chaotic beginnings, the massa confusa. Physis has wrapped the “man of light” in a passionate embrace. As the text says: “Then Beya [the maternal sea] rose up over Gabricus and enclosed him in her womb, so that nothing: more of him was to be seen. And she embraced Gabricus with so much love that she absorbed hint completely into her own nature, and dissolved him into atoms.” These verses from Merculinus are then quoted: Candida millier, si rubeo sit nupta marito, Mox complexantur, complexaque copulantur, Per se solvuntur, per se quoque conficiuntur, Ut duo qui fuerant, unum quasi corpore fiant.
(White-skinned lady, lovingly joined to her ruddy-limbed husband, Wrapped in each other’s arms in the bliss of connubial union, Merge and dissolve as they come to the goal of perfection: They that were two are made one, as though of one body.)
