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ABSTRACTIONS

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.

Family

Parentage (two versions)	Mates	Offspring	Notes
The first to exist Mist (by itself)	nobody	Gaia	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.
		Nyx	Nyx is Night.
		Eros	Eros is Love.
		Erebus	Erebus is the Darkness of the Underworld.
		Tartarus	Tartarus is a gloomy place in the Underworld.
		MOERAE	The MOERAE are the three sisters who decide on human fate.
		Hemera	Hemera is Day.
		Aether	Aether is the Upper Sky.
	Eros	BIRDS	Eros, who caused all things to mingle, consorted with Chaos and the BIRDS were created.

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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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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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