Chaos: The Great Void, Father of the Gods & Very First God to Exist
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Published 2023-09-22
The best known account of the Greek creation myth comes from Theogony, written by the poet Hesiod in the 8th century BC. Parts of Theogony are tinged with ambiguity, and the nuance in some of what it says is still debated today. What’s unequivocal is that Chaos was the first entity to exist, but less clear is what came afterwards. Chaos is the great void that independently manifested itself and existed before anything else, but as for what happened next, different interpretations are spawned from vagueness and obscurity. The next three gods to emerge are Gaia, the earth, Tartarus, the abyss beneath the earth, and Eros, sexual love or attraction. As for how these three gods came to be, there are two views: one is that they also independently manifested themselves, able to do so in the endless expanse constituted by chaos; the other is that they are the children of chaos, begotten rather than bringing themselves forth. Therefore, some believe Chaos to be the ultimate source of everything, while others believe Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros to be of equal standing, the four primordial pillars most fundamental and foundational to the universe
From Chaos alone came Erebus, darkness, and Nyx, night, and from Gaia alone came Uranus, the sky, Ourea, mountains, and Pontus, the sea. Following the advent of these gods, there followed a time of divine coupling. Erebus and Nyx came together to produce Aether, the bright upper-atmosphere, and Hemera, day, and Gaia and Uranus came together to produce the 12 first-generation titans, the trio of Uranian Cyclopes, and the trio of Hecatonchires. There were yet more children to come, but here is where we’re going to cut off the genealogy.
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All Comments (21)
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Thanks for watching! :)
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Fun fact: Chaos was mostly personified as female mostly because they’re first generation of gods were born from her
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This was a truly insightful video of Chaos.
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Finally got this god. Any chance we can get a video on the Norse fire Joton, Surtr?
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Thank you for another really good video I learned a couple new things
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When I was young I always wanted to write a story of chaos primordial the void who made Kronos of time and celestial space but kept getting bogged down by other things but I will enjoy it from a great narrated who can do it better.
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"Listen as the wind blows, from across the GREAT DIVIDE...." 🐾
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I thought Choas was female or atleast a hermaphordite type of being.
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Actually, it was the Great Ultimate who came first. His first Creation was Tranquility. His second Creation was Chaos to barrier that Tranquility. It was within that Chaos that His first Sons were born, the two nameless Gods who came to be called The Yin and Yang. And remember: History became legends, legends became myths and myths were turned into Disney movies.
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Chaos(Greek Chaos) vs Nun(Egyptian Chaos) Who will win?
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Father Chaos sees all.
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I would assume that the God himself, the real God, the one above all, must have an identical story. " There comes something out of nothing?
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Chaos the void in space formed a Deity to stay on Earth till his Daughter awakens from her long Coma.
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👍🏼✨️
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In the Abraham Apocrypha, God tells Abraham that the first creation was the Star and those are the ones he allows to be the first Human on Earth, and the closest Star to God is his Begotten Son, this is why Mythologies have the Ancient God's connected with Planets and Stars... Adam is the first to be Human without being a Star first, while the Angels are the humans that were Stars first...
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May pinag Mulan si chaos 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 or impossible Yung Sina bi ko🎉
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Hey everyone 0:16
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Also the greeks didn't have "gods" until that of Zeus .. Gaia is a titan if i am not mistaken and anything that created the titans were more celestial/primordial than titan or god
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Oh not another in-depth YT VID about "Gay-oss"....We are way past this topic and ready for something....NEW
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