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- Chaos – Mythopedia
Chaos also increasingly became associated with darkness and gloom, especially the darkness and gloom of the Underworld Other Interpretations Hesiod’s mysterious Chaos appears to have influenced early Greek philosophers as they began to search for the origins of the cosmos using science and reason rather than religion
- Set – Mythopedia
Set, Egyptian god of chaos and disorder, was a source of tremendous antagonism in Egyptian mythology After being killed by Anubis, he became a force for good in the afterlife, defending the sun from the monster Apophis
- Erebus - Mythopedia
Aristophanes: A parodic (or semi-parodic) cosmogony in the comedy Birds (414 BCE) makes Erebus one of the first beings of the cosmos rather than a son of Chaos Plato: Timaeus (fourth century BCE) imagines a new philosophical cosmogony centered around a mysterious “Demiurge” rather than figures such as Erebus, Nyx, and Chaos Roman
- Nyx - Mythopedia
Nyx, daughter of Chaos and personification of the night, was among the first Greek gods of the cosmos She bore numerous children, both with her brother-consort Erebus as well as on her own, representing various personifications and abstractions
- Greek Primordial Gods - Mythopedia
The Greek primordial gods were the first beings to populate the cosmos and gave birth to all the subsequent gods, creatures, and mortals of Greek mythology Two of these primordial gods, Gaia and Uranus, were the parents of the Titans and the grandparents of the Olympians
- Eris - Mythopedia
In the Dionysiaca, a lengthy epic by Nonnus (fifth century CE), Eris constantly foments chaos: she helps Typhoeus in his battle with Zeus (2 357–58), stands by Ares (32 176–77), leads fleets into war (39 384–85), appears in a dream to Dionysus (20 35–43), and nurses the Giant Damasen (25 485–89) Roman
- Tartarus – Mythopedia
Instead, he came into existence spontaneously at the beginning of the cosmos, together with Gaia and Eros (and after Chaos) But in another version of the cosmogony, Tartarus was the child of Gaia and Aether (“Upper Air”) Family Tree Consorts
- Japanese Gods - Mythopedia
Japanese gods and goddesses include everyone from powerful creator gods to minor, localized kami Particularly notable is the sun goddess Amaterasu, held to be the divine ancestor of the first emperor of Japan, a lineage that remains unbroken into the current day
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