The Meliai were nymphs of the trees, beautiful and gentle deities. If you broke an oath or wronged someone, they would hunt you forever. Cronus with his action had separated Uranus (the heavens) and Gaia (the Earth).įrom the drops of Uranus’ blood that fell on Gaia, the Erinyes (Furies), the Meliai and the Giants were born. When Uranus approached Gaia, Cronus surprised Uranus and cut his genitals with a scythe. She asked her other children, the Titans, to cut Uranus’s genitals and overthrow him… The Titans were too afraid to do that, except one: the youngest of the twelve, Cronus. She became furious with Uranus and decided to take revenge. Gaia, the mother of the Cyclops and Hecatoncheires, did not like how Uranus treated her children. He considered them too ugly and too powerful, so he imprisoned them in Tartarus, the depths of the Underworld. At some point, Uranus decided that he did not like the Cyclops and the Hecatoncheires at all. The first Titans were twelve six male and six female. How did the Titans become rulers of the world They had two other species as siblings, born also from the union between Gaia and Uranus: the Hecatoncheires (meaning "hundred-handed ones") and the Cyclops (meaning “circle-eyed”). Their parents were Gaia (Mother Earth) and Uranus (god of heavens). He soon became ruler of the world and father of the Titans.Īccording to Greek mythology and the ancient Greek religion, the Titans were the pre-Olympian gods. He is the twin brother of Hypnos (god of sleep) and lives in the dark Tartarus. Thalassa: the goddess of the sea and consort of god Pontus.The Underworld was the place where the wicked are imprisoned and tortured eternally after their death. Tartarus: the god of the darkest and deepest part of the Underworld - the original god of the Underworld.Pontus: the god of the sea and father of the sea creatures.She is the sister of Erebus, the god of darkness and shadow. She was a sovereign, primordial and cosmogenic entity, respected and feared by most gods. Hypnos: the god of sleep and father of Morpheus.Eros symbolizes the driving force that unites everything, giving birth to the rest. At a cosmogenic level, she symbolizes the material side of the Universe whereas Chaos symbolizes the space of the Universe. She is the mother of all - the primeval mother. Gaia: the goddess of the earth (Mother Earth).Not to be confused with Eros, the winged god of desire that we will meet later. Eros: the god of love and procreation.He is usually represented as a winged, dark and huge being, a duo with Nyx. He symbolizes the silence and the depth of the night together with his sister, the goddess Nyx. Erebus: the god of darkness and shadow.Not to be confused with Aion (god of eternity) or Cronus (the Titan that we will meet later). According to most versions of Greek myths, Chaos pre-existed all. Ananke: the goddess of inevitability, compulsion, and necessity.According to a myth, Aion and his companion, Ananke (also with a snake body), wrapped themselves around the cosmic egg and broke it to form the "sorted" Universe (earth - sky - sea). Although incorporeal, he was also portrayed as a monster with a snake body and three heads: one human (male), one bull and one lion.
He was a ghostly primordial deity who personified the meaning of time (sometimes he is confused with god Chronos). Etymologically, Aether means the highest and purest layer of air. According to Hesiod, she is the demon of death. The first creature that some say existed even before Chaos himself. Achlys: the goddess of the eternal night.
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The full list of the Primordial Greek Gods: From Gaia came Ourea, the god of the mountains, Pontus, the god of the sea, and Uranus, the god of the heavens.
Erebus, the god of darkness, and Nyx, the goddess of the night, were also born from Chaos. Goddess Gaia then followed, t he personification of Earth. Then Tartarus was born, a dark place like the abyss and the original god of the Underworld. We can see that ancient Greeks considered love as one of the most fundamental powers in the world. Out of Chaos came Eros, the god of love and procreation. Chaos was the personification of the absolute nothingness - an immerse, dark void from which all of the existence sprang. Natural forces are personified and the most basic components of the cosmos are Gods.Īccording to Hesiod, in the beginning there was Chaos. The famous work of Hesiod, called Theogony (meaning “birth of the Gods” in Greek), presents a complete cosmogony. Greek mythology starts at the beginning of the world! The Greek Gods that existed then were the Primordial Gods.
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