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Nyx and Erebos in Greek Cosmology

In my earlier posts, I wrote a hymn to Nyx & Erebos each respectfully. Now, I want to go into detail in these deities. While Khaos, the progenitor of the Protogenoi was seen as the personification of the gap between Earth and Heaven, and not chaos as it is known today. Basicly Khaos …
Faith & Spirituality, Greek cosmology

Understanding Khronos, Protogenos of Time

Who is Khronos? At first glance, people assume I would be talking about the Titan Kronos, but I’m not. Khronos and Kronos are two different Gods. One is a Protogenos, a Primordial God, the other a Titan, King of the Universe and of Gods and men before Zeus took over. Khronos means time. Khronos means…
Faith & Spirituality, Greek cosmology

Understanding Khaos in Greek Cosmology

Among the earliest beings in Greek cosmology, Khaos stands at the very beginning — before Earth, before sky, before the Gods, and before the structured universe itself. Unlike later deities with myths, personalities, and cults, Khaos represents something far more fundamental: the first condition of existence. Its through Khaos all other Gods came into being,…
Faith & Spirituality, Greek cosmology

Ouranos, Protogenos of the Heavens and Sky

Ouranos is the primordial God of the Heavens and Sky. He is the personification of the sky and heavens. While He does not appear in any early Hellenic art, the ancient Greeks probably envisioned Him as a dome, placed over the Earth (Gaia). When Kronos castrated Him, He was described as a dome. Like with…
Faith & Spirituality, Greek cosmology

Hellenic Cosmogony and the Birth of the Gods

Verily at the first Khaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundations of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels…
Faith & Spirituality, Greek cosmology