Period 7/8
Primordial Gods
Chaos
Tartarus
Gaia
Eros
Nyx
Aether
Typhon
Uranus
Momos
Ponos
Moros
Erebus
Ourea
(Mountains)
Thanatos
Hypnos
The
Hesperides
Hemera
Pontus
Geras
The Keres &
The Moiria
Nemesis
Apate
Philotes
Eris
Aether
-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
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
Eris
Origin: Daughter of Nyx (Night)
Roman Name: Discordia
Gender: Female
Goddess of chaos, strife, and discord
Dwells in the aether
Siblings: Ares, Enyo, Hephaestus, Hebe or
Thanatos, Hypnos, The Keres
The parents names are
Hydros and Gaia
Roman Name IS
Necessitas
Female
Considered the mother
Of Fates
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
Geras
origin:Nyx
Roman Name:
Senectus
God Of: old age
Relationships to
Other gods:
Thanatos, Oizys,
Hecate
Eros
Origin: Son of Aphrodite and Ares
Roman Name: Cupid
Male
God of love
Lived on Mt. Olympus
He could shoot his arrows into the hearts of gods and mortals. Makes sure Helen of
Troy falls in love with Paris.
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 Affection
Relations: 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