11/10/2022 0 Comments Age mythology erebus![]() Erebus and Hades were used interchangeably to denote the Underworld. The Underworld was usually divided into two main areas: Erebus and Tartarus. With his sister Nyx, Erebus was father of Aether (“Upper Air”) and Hemera (“Day”).Īpart from the part he played in the Creation, as being the father of Aether and Hemera, Erebus was usually just the personification of one region of the Underworld. The Orphic Nyx seemed to have taken over the role of Hesiodic Gaea, because it is Nyx who have prophetic power, not Gaea.Ĭhaos, Erebus, Eros, Gaea, Tartarus, Aether, Hemera, Uranus, Cronus, Zeus, Protogonus (Phanes).Įrebus was born together with Nyx, Gaea, Tartarus, and Eros (“Love”), out of Chaos. Though, Nyx had freely given away power to Uranus, she gave advice to three successive rulers: Uranus, Cronus and Zeus. Later, she gave the supreme rulership to her son Uranus. The moment she was born, Nyx had ruled with her father, until he made her the supreme ruler of heaven and earth. From Phanes, she was the mother of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth). Protogonus had male and female sex, so he was able to produce Nyx without a partner. Zeus would displeasure her by destroying Hypnos (Sleep), one of her many offspring.Īccording to the Orphic Creation Myth, Nyx (Night) was the daughter of Protogonus (Phanes), the first god, without a mother. In the Iliad, Homer mentioned that the only goddess that Zeus only truly feared was the “all-subduing Night”. She was said to dwell in the Underworld during the day, and only come out at dusk. Her wings were black or shadowy, and she was called “swift Night”. Nyx was sometimes seen as a winged goddess. ![]() Most of these children dwelled in the Underworld. Her other children were mostly abstract personification: Apate (“Deceit”), Geras (“Old Age”), the Keres (“Dooms”), Momos (“Blame”), Oizus (“Misery”) and Philotes (“Tenderness”). Nyx was possibly the mother of Eris (“Strife”) and the Hesperides. Nyx was also the mother of Moros (“Doom”), Thanatos (“Death”), Hypnos (“Sleep”), Charon, Nemesis (“Retribution”), and the Fates (Moerae). By her brother Erebus, Nyx bore Aether (“Upper Air”) and Hemera (“Day”). Nyx was born together with Erebus, Gaea, Tartarus, and Eros (“Love”), out of Chaos. Nyx was identified by the Roman as Nox, and was often just as Night. Nyx, Erebus, Eros, Gaea, Tartarus, Chronus, Adrasteia. It was Chronus and Aether who became the parents of the first god, Phanes or Protogonus, who was usually identified with Eros (Love). It was lifeless matter, where all elements of creation were heaped together, so that nothing could be distinguished from one another.Īccording to the Orphic myths, Chaos was born from Chronus (Time) and Adrasteia (Necessity), at the same time as Erebus and Aether. ![]() Before the earth, sea and heaven (as well as the heavenly bodies, such as the sun, moon and stars), before even there was the deathless gods, Chaos existed as formless mass. It is from the 1st century BC Roman poet, Ovid, that we are given more description of Chaos. Hesiod doesn’t give us much detail about Chaos, only saying that he was the very first to come into being. Without a mate, Chaos bore Nyx (“Night”) and Erebus (“Darkness”). Out of Chaos, or together with it, came Gaea (“Earth”), Tartarus and Eros (“Love”). ![]() Long after the “beginning of time”, the void known as Chaos came into existence in the universe. ![]()
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