Jean Pierre Vernant shows in this way that the imperial myths are not able to conceive a law of organization that is immanent in the universe: they need to posit and internalize this difference between the origin and the beginnings, between the sovereign power and the genesis of the world; the myth constitutes itself within this distance, it makes it into the very object of its narrative, retracing the avatars of sovereignty down thro gh the succession of generations to the moment when a supremacy, this time definitive, puts an end to the dramatic elaboration of the dunesteia.