Nyx the Goddess of Night also popped out and ancient Greek cosmology finally got going. But the nature of Chaos remains shrouded in obscurity. Is she (or he) even a deity, or just a concept? Nobody knows much about the Deity of Nothing, so perhaps there is nothing to know. If you...
In Ancient Greek cosmology, Chaos was the first thing to exist and the womb from which everything emerged. For Hesiod and the Olympian mythos, Chaos was the 'vast and dark' void from which the first deity, Gaia, emerged. In the Pelasgian creation myth, Eurynome ('goddess of everything')...
She was also a goddess of fate like her daughter Nyx and grand-daughters the Moirai (Moirae).As the goddess of the air Khaos was also the mother of birds, just as Gaia (the Earth) was the mother of land animals, and Thalassa (the Sea) was the mother of fish....
The dwarf planet Eris is named after the goddess. Eris on an Attic plate, ca. 575–525 BC / Altes Museum, Wikimedia Commons She functions essentially as a personification, as which she appears in Homer and many later works. Characteristics in Greek Mythology In Hesiod’s Works and ...
Nyx, the dark goddess of Night and wife of Chaos Erebus, son of Chaos and Nyx, darkness and the Underworld. He supplanted Chaos and married his mother Nyx Aether&Hemera: Erebos and Nyx had many children including Aether (Light) and Hemera (Day) who dethroned their parents, and seized the...
According to Greek Mythology Eris was the daughter of Nyx, the dark goddess of Night and Erebus whose province was the Underworld before the emergence of Hades. The siblings of Eris were all death spirits: Thanatos, twin of Hypnos, a god of Death, the hard-hearted, pitiless, enemy of mank...
Persephone, Goddess of Spring, never guessed a chance encounter with Hades, God of the Underworld, would change her life forever—but he did。A fight for humanity and battles between gods, it's a world Persephone never thought she would see。 To end the chaos, she must draw upon her ...
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(Zeus already had a consort when he arrived in the Greek world and took Hera, herself a major goddess in Argos, as another.) Hesiod used—or sometimes invented—the family links among the deities, traced out over several generations, to explain the origin and present condition of the ...