Heraclitus Of Ephesus
(flourished circa 500 B.C.E.):

Those who step into the same river have different waters flowing ever upon them.

If it were not in honor of Dionysus that they conducted the procession and sang the hymn to the male organ [the phallic hymn], their activity would be completely shameless. But Hades is the same as Dionysus, in whose honor they rave and perform the Bacchic revels.

This ordered universe [cosmos], which is the same for all, was not created by any one of the gods or of mankind, but it was ever and is and shall be ever-living Fire, kindled in measure and quenched in measure.

The changes of fire: first sea; and of sea, half is earth and half fiery water-spout. . . . Earth is liquified into sea, and retains its measure according to the same Law as existed...