![]() "When the bevy of Mousai (Muses) met the shepherd Hesiod. ![]() "Aisa (Aesa, Fate) and Poros (the Contriver), those ancient ones, conquered them all. "He has identified Poros (the Contriver) with the god called Khaos (Chaos) by Hesiod." įrom Khaos (Chaos) came forth Erebos (Darkness) and black Nyx (Night)."Īlcman, Fragment 1 (from Scholiast on Aristophanes the Birds 14) (trans. "Verily at the first Khaos (Chaos, the Chasm) came to be, but next wide-bosomed Gaia (Gaea, Earth), the ever-sure foundations of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympos. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) : Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES CHAOS & THE BIRTH OF THE COSMOS Some of the later poets use the word Chaos in the general sense of the airy realms, of darkness, or the lower world. According to Hesiod, Chaos was the mother of Erebos and Nyx. 1, &c.), who describes it as the confused mass containing the elements of all things that were formed out of it. A different definition of Chaos is given by Ovid ( Met. 116), and out of which the gods, men, and all things arose. This passage is sometimes misread, making them her offspring.ĬHAOS (Chaos), the vacant and infinite space which existed according to the ancient cosmogonies previous to the creation of the world (Hes. According to Hesiod's Theogony Gaia, Tartaros and Eros came into being after Khaos. THE BIRDS (by Eros) (Aristophanes Birds 685) ![]() EREBOS, NYX, AITHER, HEMERA (Hyginus Preface) EREBOS, NYX (without a mate) (Hesiod Theogony 124) KHRONOS (Orphic Rhapsodies 66) OFFSPRING KHRONOS & ANANKE (Orphic Argonautica 12, Orphic Fragment 54) NONE (the first being to emerge at creation) (Hesiod Theogony 116) The modern English word "chaos" derives from this. Late classical authors redefined Khaos as the chaotic mix of elements which existed in the primordial universe, conflating it with the primal "Mud" of the Orphic cosmogony. She was also a goddess of fate like her daughter Nyx and grand-daughters the Moirai (Moirae).Īs 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. Khaos was the mother and grandmother of the other misty essences-Erebos (the mists of netherworld darkness), Aither (the ethereal mists of heaven), Nyx (the night) and Hemera (the day), as well as the numerous emotion-driving Daimones (Spirits) which haunted it. The word khaos means "gap" or "chasm" being the space between heaven and earth. Khaos was the lower atmosphere which surrounds the earth-both the invisible air and the gloom of fog and mist. ![]() She was followed in quick succession by Gaia (Gaea, Earth), Tartaros (the Pit Below) and Eros (Procreation). KHAOS (Chaos) was the first of the primordial gods ( protogenoi) to emerge at the dawn of creation. ![]()
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