This philosophical reflection explores a profound quote from Sophocles' tragedy Ajax, which depicts immeasurable time as a creative force that "gives birth" (fyei) to all that is unmanifest, only to "hide" (kryptei) it again. The text investigates whether these poetic expressions should be interpreted as mere metaphors or as fundamental ontological statements. A central theme is the tension between revelation and concealment; if time simply brings things to light, it implies that these entities may already exist in a state of pre-revelation. The author examines the consequences of this idea for the concept of ARCHÉ (origin). If beings are "existent" even before their temporal birth, we are forced to seek the ARCHÉ of everything that time has not yet revealed but which already possesses being. The study thus offers a nuanced perspective on the ancient Greek understanding of time, not as a destructive element, but as a medium of shifting visibility, fundamentally reshaping the conceptual interplay between ARCHÉ and FYSIS.