calasso's division of the world into four realms:

perennial metamorphosis, that of every beginning when the word has not yet detached itself from the thing, nor the mind from the matter; the realm of substitution is the world of the digit, above all the sign, the digit as sign, as incessant substituition; the realm of the unique is the world that always eludes the clutches of language, the very appearing of the irrepeatable; the realm of zeus is that of the greek stories, of which we are still a part.

from the marriage of cadmus and harmony