an endless process (requital), rather than as a ‘cause’, or occupying a point in time. Fire is also unique amongst the elements in not being in any sense a thing or substance, but a pure process, pure phenomenal energy
Consider the prehistoric cration diad of fire and ice in norse mythology: chaos and order, movemmt and stagnation, the place of creation is the boundary where these two opposites meet. Their tension also creates rather than annihilates.
