with the intrinsic equivocality of its essence. As a consequence of this manifold essence. the uncanny is then also multiple in the way it appears in each case. This multiplicity in the appearing of its essence then first conditions a diversity among that which appears. The multifarious essence of uncanniness intensifies its essence as a whole. πολλὰ τὰ δεινά therefore in no way means merely that there is a great range of uncanny things in terms of number. The uncanny is not "given" at all in the sense of being merely present at hand. Of the uncanny we are told: πέλει as emphasized by its intonation at the end of these two lines. The uncanny "is" in the manner of a coming forth (looming). and in such a way that in all its stirring it nonetheless abides within the inaccessibility of its essence. Hölderlin's most sublime elegy, "The Archipelagus," lets us intimate something of the essence of πέλειν.
We are otherwise accustomed to understand the uncanny as that which gives rise to anxiety. as something in the face of which we are seized with terror or shy back. If we think it in this way, we take the uncanny in terms of the impression it makes upon us. Yet to the extent that we intend the uncanny as meaning the extraordinary in the sense of something objective, as that which it is in itself and not merely with respect to the impressions it makes upon us, we think the uncanny as the immense and vice versa. In our translation, however, the word is to be conceived in a more originary way. The uncanny means that which is not "at home," not homely within whatever is homely. Accordingly, we must therefore think the extraordinary not as the immense, nor merely as that which is not the ordinary, but as that which, without the ordinary, resides within that which is not ordinary. Such abode in that which is not ordinary, such not being homely, neither first results as a mere consequence of wandering around, nor does it consist merely in the adventurous. Being unhomely is no mere deviance from the homely, but rather the converse: a seeking and searching out the homely, a seeking that at times does not know itself This seeking shies at no danger and no risk. Everywhere it ventures and is underway in all directions.
The adventurer is merely not-homely: the δεινότατος by contrast, is the most uncanny being in a specific manner of being homely, namely that which. within its own essence. finds no entry to this essence, remains