Chaos
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Chaos.
Painting by C. Parada.
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Chaos is the void which came into being before anything else. But some say that Chaos was born from Mist, and that Mist was the first to exist. Others affirm that Chaos is not a void, but a rough unordered mass of things. It is also asserted that Chaos existed from the beginning, together with Nyx, Erebus (Darkness of the Underworld), and Tartarus, and consequently they consider Chaos to be as Nyx and Erebus: one of "the powers below the ground".
It is told that during the war between the TITANS and the OLYMPIANS, the fight came to such a degree of intensity that an amazing heat seized Chaos.
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The first to exist
Mist (by itself)
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Gaia is Earth. Some
authors, when reading Hesiod's Theogony,
have understood that Gaia, Eros and Tartarus came after
Chaos in the sense that these are the offspring of
Chaos, while others think they just appeared after
Chaos.
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Nyx is Night.
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Eros is Love.
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Erebus is the Darkness of the Underworld.
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Tartarus is a gloomy place in the Underworld.
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The MOERAE are the three sisters who decide on
human fate.
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Hemera is Day.
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Aether is the Upper Sky.
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Eros, who caused all
things to mingle, consorted with Chaos and the
BIRDS were created.
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Genealogical Charts
Names in this chart: Aether, Chaos, Erebus, Eros, Gaia, Hemera, MOUNTAINS, Nyx, NYX'S OFFSPRING, Pontus,
Tartarus, Typhon, Uranus.
(When reading Hesiod's Theogony,
some have understood that Gaia "came after Chaos" in the sense that Gaia is the offspring of Chaos, whereas others
think she just appeared after Chaos. The same applies to
Eros and Tartarus. Nyx and
Erebus remain the undisputed offspring of Chaos.)
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Sources
Abbreviations |
Ari.Birds.683ff.;
Hes.The.116-125; Hyg.Fab.Pre; Nonn.7.111;
Ov.Met.1.1ff.; QS.3.756; Vir.Geo.4.348.
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