Period 7/8 Primordial Gods. Chaos GaiaTartarus ErosNyxErebus Typhon Uranus Ourea (Mountains) Pontus Aether MomosPonos Moros Thanatos Hypnos The Hesperides.

Period 7/8 Primordial Gods

Chaos

GaiaTartaru

s Eros Nyx Erebus

Typhon

UranusOurea

(Mountains)

Pontus

Aether

Momos Ponos Moros Thanatos

Hypnos

The Hesperides

The Keres & The Moiria

Nemesis Apate Philotes

Geras

Eris

Hemera

-Son of Erebus (darkness) and Nyx (night)

-Male, sometimes referred to as Ether in Roman mythology

-Personification of the pure upper air that the gods breathe

-Father of Penthos, Pontus, Aergia and the Nelphelai

Aether

Thalassa

Daughter of Aether and Hemera Roman name: Thalassa/Mare Primordial goddess of the sea She and sea god Pontus were the

parents of the nine Telchines and Halia

No body; is literally the sea

Apate

Daughter of Nyx (personification of night) and Erebos (personification of darkness)

Roman name: Fraus (means “Fraud”)

She is the personification of deceit

Her siblings are Geras (old age), Oizys (suffering), Moros (doom), Momos (blame), Eris (strife), Nemesis (retribution), and Keres (carnage)

Her counterpart is Dolos, who is the god of trickery and was released from Pandora’s Box.

Gaia

Birth from Chaos

Terra

The great mother of all: the primal Greek Mother Goddess; creator and giver of birth to the Earth and all the Universe

She is sometimes depicted as an only child & sometimes not being Chao’s child

• Tartarus

• He’s the primordial god of the pit

• No different roman name• The pit• Married to Geaia and father

of the giants

Erebus

Origin: Born from Chaos

Roman Name: Erebus / Male

God of: Darkness / Dwells in the Underworld

Father of Aether / Brother to Nyx

A symbol for him is unfathomable darkness

ErisOrigin: Daughter of Nyx (Night)Roman Name: DiscordiaGender: FemaleGoddess of chaos, strife, and discordDwells in the aetherSiblings: Ares, Enyo, Hephaestus, Hebe or Thanatos, Hypnos, The Keres

Roman Name IS Necessitas

Female

Considered the mother Of Fates

The parents names are Hydros and Gaia

ANANKE is related to Khronos

She Is the god Of Evil

Chaos First Being Genderless Roman name is Khaos Eternal void Creator of Gaia, Tartarus, Nyx, Eros, Erebus

Gerasorigin:Nyx

Roman Name: Senectus

God Of: old age

Relationships to Other gods: Thanatos, Oizys, Hecate

Origin: Son of Aphrodite and AresRoman Name: CupidMaleGod of loveLived on Mt. OlympusHe could shoot his arrows into the hearts of gods and mortals. Makes sure Helen of Troy falls in love with Paris.

Eros

Hemera

Daughter of Erebus and Nyx

Roman name is

Goddess of the daytime

Female

Brother is Aether

She and Aether created Eros, Tartarus, Pontus, and Gaia

Dethroned their Parents

Child is Thalassa

HYPNOS

Origin: Son Nyx and Erebus Roman Name: Somnus God of sleep Lives in a cave in the Underworld Brother of Thanatos

Ourea• Gaia, no father

• Mons, neither male nor female

• Mountains

• Each mountain has its own God

• TMOLOS A Mountain of Lydia was the judge of a musical contest between Apollo and Pan

Momus• Parents are Erebus and Nyx• God of blame, mockery, satire, writers, poets, censure, and unfair

criticism• Male • Roman counterpart was Querella • Siblings were all death spirits or strongly associated with the

Underworld• Has a twin sister named Oizys, (goddess of distress, anxiety and

worry.)• Due to his constant criticism of other Gods, including Zeus, he

was exiled from Mount Olympus.

Nemesis-said to be daughter of either Oceanus and Nox or Jupiter and Necessity

-Roman name= Invidia; female

-The goddess of retribution for evil acts and undeserved good fortune

-Her name is derived from the Greek words nemêsis and nemô, meaning “dispenser of dues”

-She would be called upon to reign justice on those who committed evil acts or had undeserving good fortune

-She was a relatively unimportant goddess in both Greek and Roman culture

-If someone called upon her to help him/her, she would generally sympathize and “soften” her stance

-Was thought to hold the power to punish civilizations

-Stood for the preservation of justice even in the darkest times

Philotes~ Origin: Daughter of Nyx Roman name: Amicitia,

Gratia- Female The god of: Friendship, and

AffectionRelations: Nyx, Hemera, Eris,

Erebos, Moros, and Dolas

The Moria Origin: Deriving from μοῖρα. Roman name: Often known in English as the

Fates or Anglicisation of the Irish name Máire. Male or female: Female What are they the god of: Destiny Where do they dwell: Middle Earth Fun facts: Moira is related to Tekmor and with

Ananke, who were primeval goddesses in mythical cosmogonies.

Uranus

Origin:Gaea

Roman name:???

Male

God of: sky or heavens

He was the first son of Gaia (the earth) and he also became her husband

Hesperides• Female

• Considered Goddesses of the evening and sunset.

• Possibly born from Erebus and Nyx, or the Titan Atlas.

• Guard a sacred garden in the far west of the world

• Has magical apples that grant immortality

• The tree bearing the apples belongs to Hera, gift from Gaia

• Assisted by a dragon called Ladon

• Heracles had to steal an apple from this garden

• The apple of discord came from this garden, which caused the Trojan war.

Thanatos

Nyx & Erebus

Male

Underworld

Sisyphus tricked him

Thesis or as in Greek Θεσις Θετις • Thesis was the protogena (primordial goddess) of creation, a divinity

related to Phusis (Nature). She occurs in the Orphic Theogonies as the first to emerge at creation alongside the Hydros (the primordial waters).

Parents

• NONE (emerged at the beginning of creation)

Offspring

• KHRONOS, ANANKE (by Hydros) POROS, TEKMOR

• Thesis is a female I think. And doesn’t have a roman name.

Ridings, Typhon

Origin: Monster last son of Gaia, fathered by Tartarus

Gender: Male

Know as the most deadly monster and the

“Father of All Monsters”

Was Imprisoned in Tartarus

Married to Echidna, created many monsters

Wait, Moros

Origin- Son of Nyx who was believed to be the mother of everything mysterious.

Roman Name- Theoi God of- doom Related to – Thantos and Ker Picture-

Ponos

Mother is Eris Roman Name= Ponus

Male God of hard labor and

toil Also is a disease

occurring in children in some Greek islands, characterized by enlargement of the spleen, hemorrhages, and fever