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Epimenides
Semi-mythical seer and philosopher poet, Epimenides wrote his own Orphic theogony with Nyx as the first principle.
From The Presocratic Philosophers, a translation of Philodemus de pietate is translated and quoted. It tells how Epimenides placed Aer and Nyx as first principles.
"In the verses ascribed to Epimenides all things are composed from Air (Aer) and Night (Nyx); as Homer, also declared that Okeanos begets the gods from Tethys..."
There is also a translation of Damascius de principiis is translated and quoted. In it there is the beginning summary of Epimenides' theogony.
"Epimenides posited two first principles, Air (Aer) and Night (Nyx)...from which Tartaros was produced...from all of which two Titans were produced...from whose mutual mingling an egg came into being...from which, again, other offspring came forth."
Book sources:
The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts. Geoffrey Stephen Kirk, John Earle Raven, Malcolm Scholfield. Cambridge University Press. 1983.
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