KHAOS (or Chaos) was the first of the Protogenoi (primeval gods) to emerge at the creation of the universe. She was followed in quick succession by Gaia (Earth), Tartaros (the Underworld) and Eros (Love the life-bringer).
Khaos was the lower atmosphere which surrounded the earth - invisible air and gloomy mist. Her name khaos literally means the gap, the space between heaven and earth. Khaos was the mother or grandmother of the other substances of air: Nyx (Night), Erebos (Darkness), Aither (Light) and Hemera (Day), as well as the various emotion-affecting Daimones which drifted through it. She was also a goddess of fate like her daughter Nyx and grand-daughters the Moirai.
Later authors defined Khaos as the chaotic mix of elements that existed in the primeval universe, confusing it with the primeval Mud of the Orphic cosmogonies, but this was not the original meaning.
Ancestors of the Gods is Chaos. The Titan is the son of Gaia, the descendants of Chaos. The Greek Gods were born by the Titan , like Zeus the son of Kronus, who then threw the Titans , and eventually he and the other Gods became powerful creatures and organize human life.
According to Greek mythology, the gods did not live in paradise, but they lived in the mountain Olympus. There they assembled and led by Zeus, king of the gods. Before the arrival of the Christian religion, people worship the Greek gods. They made a special temple for each god. Gods and goddesses are worshiped, for example: Zeus, Hera, Ares, Poseidon, Aphrodite, Demeter, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Athena, Hefestus, Hades, Helios, etc.
Primal Chaos
In Ancient Greek cosmology, Chaos was the first couple of things to exist and the womb from which everything emerged. For Hesiod and the Olympian mythos, Chaos was the 'vast and dark' void from which the possible first deity, Gaia, emerged. In the Pelasgian creation myth, Eurynome ('goddess of everything') emerged from this Chaos and created the Cosmos from it[citation needed]. For Orphics, it was called the 'Womb of Darkness' from which the Cosmic Egg that contained the Universe emerged. It is sometimes conflated with 'Black Winged Night'.
The idea is also found in Mesopotamia and associated with Tiamat the 'Dragon' of Chaos, from whose dismembered body the world was formed.
Genesis refers to the earliest conditions of the Earth as "without form, and void", a state similar to chaos.[1]
Primal Chaos was sometimes said to be the true foundation of reality, particularly by philosophers such as Heraclitus and those trained in Orphic schools. It was the opposite of Platonism. It was also probably what Aristotle had in mind when he developed the concept of Prima Materia in his attempt to combine Platonism with the Presocraticism and Naturalism. It was a concept inherited by the theory of alchemy.
In the modern religion of Discordianism, chaos is viewed as still existing, with any apparent order being an illusion
The idea is also found in Mesopotamia and associated with Tiamat the 'Dragon' of Chaos, from whose dismembered body the world was formed.
Genesis refers to the earliest conditions of the Earth as "without form, and void", a state similar to chaos.[1]
Primal Chaos was sometimes said to be the true foundation of reality, particularly by philosophers such as Heraclitus and those trained in Orphic schools. It was the opposite of Platonism. It was also probably what Aristotle had in mind when he developed the concept of Prima Materia in his attempt to combine Platonism with the Presocraticism and Naturalism. It was a concept inherited by the theory of alchemy.
In the modern religion of Discordianism, chaos is viewed as still existing, with any apparent order being an illusion
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