1. A guide & work in progress
The Primordial Gods
A guide & work in progress

2. Primordial Gods “Primordial Deities” “Protogenoi” or first beings
Also known as…
“Primordial Deities”
“Protogenoi” or first beings
“Elementals” – meaning they had no bodies
They are the basic components of the universe which were emerged at creation.
They included Earth, Air, Sea, Sky, Fresh Water, Underworld, Darkness, Night, Light, Day, Procreation and Time.

3. Chaos Tartarus Gaia Eros Nyx Erebus Aether Hemera Typhon Uranus Ourea
(Mountains)
Pontus
Momos
Ponos
Moros
Thanatos
Hypnos
Geras
The Hesperides
The Keres &
The Moiria
Nemesis
Apate
Philotes
Eris

4. Your Slide Origin of the Monster/Creature (parents or creation)
Roman Name? Male or female?
What are they the god of? / Where do they dwell?
Any important relationships to other gods or fun facts
Picture or Artist’s Rendering

5. Student Slides

6. Chaos Origin: Chaos is the Origin of all things
AKA: Chaos, Haos, Khaos, Arche. (No clear gender. More of a thing than a being)
Source of which everything was created including the universe and the gods. (The Primordial Primordial).
Chaos is also a place. It is its own home
It is the creator of Gaia, Eros, Nyx, Tartarus, Erebus. And has some direct relation with all of the Primordial.
Chaos is the origin
The only being to be around since the beginning of time
Chaos is the void into which everything is created
From Chaos, without a mate, came Gaia, Eros, Tartarus
It’s literally just a void, no gender, no physical form, nothing. Its an endless void of nothingness

7. Tartarus Tartarus was a primordial god that came from Chaos and Gaea.
No roman name and is a male.
Tartarus is a name used to describe the underworld, where it was the most horrible prison
The judges of the underworld, Aeacus and Minos, would decide who would go to Hades (heaven) or Tartarus (hell).
Origin: Chaos birthed Tartarus
Gender: Male
Relationships: son of Chaos, father of Typhon, had a child with Gaia, created the same time with Gaia, Eros, Nyx, and Erebus
God: God of the Underworld and is a horrible prison that terrible monsters and people are sent
Dwell: it dwells in itself; it is a place
Fun Fact: Many of the Titans are locked away in Tartarus; third in rank behind Chaos and Gaia

8. Eros
Origin- Believed to be son of Aphrodite (goddess of love) and Ares (god of war)
Gender - Male
Roman Name- Cupid
God of love and sexual desire, also fertility
Lives on Mount Olympus
Has the power to make anyone fall in love
Carries a bow and arrow

9. Typhon 100 dragon heads Parents-Gaia and Tartarus Male
God of monsters and was condemned to the underworld
Father of monsters such as Ladon, Cerberus, Sphinx, Chimera, Hydra, Nemean Lion, Orthus. 
Battle with Zeus and was defeated and sent to the underworld
most feared monster in all Greek mythology
no other mythical creature, god or monster was as powerful, dangerous, or deadly.

10. Origin: Uranus was conceived by Gaia alone, but other sources cite Aether (personification of the upper air) as his father.
Roman name: Caelus (Latin for “sky” or "the heavens” or “celestial”).
Primordial God of the Sky
The Greeks thought of the sky as a solid brass dome that was decorated with stars.
Uranus was the literal sky.
FUN FACTS ABOUT URANUS
Married his sister, Gaea ( Primordial Goddess of Earth)
Banished his first sons, the Cyclopes, to Tartarus out of disgust
Murdered by his son Kronos with a diamond sickle given to Kronos by Gaea
Kronos severed Uranus’s genitals, and threw them into the ocean. This created sea foam from which Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty, was born.

11. Ourea (Roman: Montanus)
The Ourea were the Protogenoi (primeval gods) or rustic Daimones (spirits) of the mountains
The ten ourea – Aitna, Athos, Helikon, Kithairon, Nysos, Olympus 1, Olympus 2, Oreios, Parnes, and Tmolus were the offspring of Gaia alone.

12. Pontus Was a male primordial god who ruled Sea
Son of Gaia (has no father)
Pontus and Gaia had five children (Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys, Ceto and Eurybia)
Lived in the Sea
His wife was Thalassa
Pontus was also the father of fish and other sea creatures
Also known as Pontos

13. NYX
PARENTS OF NYX ARE KHAOS(GREEK DIETI OF CHOAS) AND PHANES(GREEK DIETI OF CREATION, LIFE)
NYX’S ROMAN NAME IS NOX, SHE IS A FEMALE
NYX IS THE DIETI OF NIGHT/ HER HOME IS EREBUS AND SKY
NYX COUPLING WITH EREBUS(DARKNESS) SHE FORMED AITHER(LIGHT) AND HEMERA(DAY)
NYX ALONE FORMED THE THREE FATES(GODDESS OF DESTINY AND FATE), PAIN(), SLEEP, STRIFE AND DEATH

14. Erebus Male Child of Chaos
Bared children Nyx(sister): Aether (the bright upper atmosphere) and Hemera (Day). Charon (the ferry-man)
Erebus
Lived in Erebus
Embodiment of primordial darkness

15. Aether- God of Heavenly air Son of Erebus (darkness) and Nyx(night)
-opposed to mortal air “Chaos”
-or air of the underworld “Erebos”
Son of Erebus (darkness) and Nyx(night)
Father to Gaea(earth), Thalassa(sea), and Uranus(heavens)
Roman name Ether

16. Hemera Parents: Erebus and Nyx Goddess of Daytime
Roman Equivalent: Dies
Brother/husband: Aether
Lives: “At the ends of the earth, where
lie the roots of earth, sea, Tartaros”

17. Momus Momus is a creation. His roman name is Querella.
Momus is the God or personify spirit of mocker, blame, ridicule, scorn, complaint, and hash criticism.
He was expelled by Zeus from heaven for ridiculing the gods.

18. Ponos The god of hard labor and toil.
Son of Eris, goddess of discord and grandson of Nyx, the goddess of night.
His siblings were Horcus, Limos, Algea, the Hysminai, the Makhai, the Phonoi, the Androktasiai, the Neikea, the Pseudologoi, the Amphilogiai, Dysnomia, Ate, and Lethe. They were all personifications of wrong doings or negative situations, such as pain, fights, murder, lies and forgetfulness.

19. Moros
Moros was the god o impending doom who drove mortals to their doom
Moros had no father but he was the son of Nyx
He also was the brother of the Morai or the Fates
All of the major and minor gods that were not related to him lived in fear of what Moros could or would do to them.
Nyx
The Fates

20. Thanatos Origin: Son of Nyx(night) and Erebos(darkness)
Male. Roman name: Mors or Letum.
Personifies death
Not in many myths
One with Sisyphus
and one with Hercules

21. Hypnos Mother- Nyx, Father- Erebus Hypnos is a Male The God of Sleep
Lives in the Underworld
Him and his brother Thanatos “Death”, both live in the Underworld
His father Erebus, was a part of Hades

22. Geras Son of Nyx, goddess of the night, and Erebos, god of darkness
Roman Name: Senectus
Geras is male
God of old age
Depicted as a very small, skinny, and shriveled up old man

23. The Hesperides Daughters of Erebus and Nyx 3-7 of them
Nymphs of the Sunset
Garden of Hesperides belonged to Hera
Golden apples believed to grant immortality grew there
Hesperides guarded them with Ladon, the 100 headed dragon
One apple started the chain of events leading to the Trojan War
One of Hercules’s tasks was to steal an apple

24. The Keres Origin: Agents of the Fates, Daughters of Nyx and Erebos
Translation: Death Spirit, Doom
Female spirits of violent/cruel death
Thousands of Keres haunted the battlefield, searching for dead soldiers to feed off of
Personification of misery

25. Nemesis Goddess of Revenge and Retribution Origins Daughter of Zeus
Gender
Female
Other information
Spirit of divine retribution against those who are arrogant towards the gods.
Also known as the “inescapable”
Goddess who lured Narcissus to the pool of water

26. Apate (Roman: Fraus)
She is the personification of deceit of guile, fraud, and deception
She is one of the evil spirits released from Pandora's box

27. Philotes Female She was the spirit of friendship, affection and sex
Parents are Erobes and Nyx
She was considered the opposite of the Neikea (the Feuds)
Her siblings are said to be Apate (Deceit) and Nemesis (Envy)

28. Eris Child of Nyx alone Female; no Roman name
Goddess of chaos, strife, and discord
Dwells in Erebus, or the Greek underworld
She was responsible for the start of the Trojan War.

29. The Complete Primordial Gods/Goddess Family Tree
(Pre-Titan Generation)

30. Chaos Tartarus Gaia Eros Nyx Erebus Aether Hemera Typhon Uranus Ourea
(Mountains)
Pontus
Momos
Ponos
Moros
Thanatos
Hypnos
Geras
The Hesperides
The Keres &
The Moiria
Nemesis
Apate
Philotes
Eris