Not arranged as a distinct class in and of itself, here is, even so, the catalogue of the first entities to manifest in the Hellenic
cosmology, and the sources for all the rest: Aether, Chaos, Erebus, Gaea, Hemera, Nyx, Phanes, Pontos, Uranus.
These beings have the following representations:
- Aether
- Upper Air
- Chaos
- Primal being out of which all else emerged
- Erebus
- The utter Shadow surrounding Hades
- Gaea
- The Earth-Mother herself
- Hemera
- The force and Presence of Day and Light
- Nyx
- The force and Presence of Night and Darkness
- Phanes
- The first light to emerge from Chaos
- Pontos
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- Uranus
- Lord of the Titans
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Erebus
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| |  | "(darkness) A Primal being, child of Chaos, by Nyx father of the Hesperides and of Aether. He was the utter Shadow surrounding Hades...." |
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Phanes
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| | | "A primal Being, child of Kronos and perhaps the father of Nyx; He is Radiance, the first light to emerge from Chaos...." |
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Hemera
by Obsidian [15 words] |
| | | "(day) A primal being, representing the force and Presence of Day and Light, sibling to Aether...." |
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Chaos
by Obsidian [20 words] |
| | | "(void) According to Hesiod, the very first entity to assume definite existence; the primal being out of which all else emerged...." |
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Gaea
by Obsidian [16 words] |
| | | "(Earth) The Earth-Mother herself, A primal being, emergent from of Chaos, and representative of the Earth itself...." |
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