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The first age ends not with a death but with a withdrawal, and the withdrawal leaves the same two marks: (1) the world is visibly poorer · Hesiod's hidden 'means of life,' the Euahlayi's vanished flowers and honey; and (2) the withdrawn presence still watches from concealment · golden-age spirits 'clothed in mist' keeping watch, Byamee's three branded trees standing as an untouchable claim on the emptied earth. In both, the gap is not an absence of the first age but its deliberate concealment, with sentinels left behind.
The golden race does not die when its age ends · it withdraws from sight: 'they are called pure spirits dwelling on the earth... they roam everywhere over the earth, clothed in mist and keep watch on judgements and cruel deeds' (ll. 121–126). And the present age is defined by a subtraction: 'the gods keep hidden from men the means of life' (l. 42).
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