Deity Greek and Roman
Chaos
Χάος , Chaos grc
Greek primordial deity
A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.
Accounts kept apart
Family
The family of Chaos
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 10
Kinship in an account 10
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Ananke personification of inevitability, compulsion and necessity in Greek mythology - child of (child) Caligo Roman deity
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child of (child) Chronos personification of Time in ancient Greek religion -
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parent of (father) Dies personification of day, and the Roman counterpart of the Greek goddess Hemera - parent of (father) Erebos primordial deity in Greek mythology
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parent of (father) Eros Greek god of love and sex -
parent of (father) Gaia Greek primordial deity, the personification of the Earth -
parent of (father) Nyx Greek goddess of the night -
parent of (child) Tartarus deep abyss, place of punishment, in ancient Greek mythology -
parent of (father) Uranus primordial Greek deity, god of the Sky; one of the Greek primordial deities
Connections
How Chaos connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
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What this means
A work, its editions and its witnesses are distinct; their dates are not interchangeable.
Does not imply that the work is the only account · that the work is contemporary with what it describes
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
9 statements on this record
- 9 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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