Chaos. Chaos refers to the void state preceding the creation of the universe or cosmos in the Greek creation myths, or to the initial gap created by the original separation of heaven and earth.
Greek means emptiness, vast void, chasm, abyss, from the verb, gape, be wide open, etc., from Proto-Indo-European, cognate to Old English geanian, to gape, whence English yawn. It may also mean space, the expanse of air, the nether abyss or infinite darkness.
Pherecydes of Syros interprets chaos as water, like something formless which can be differentiated. Hesiod and the Pre-Socratics use the Greek term in the context of cosmogony.
Hesiod's Chaos has been interpreted as eitherthe gaping void above the Earth created when Earth and Sky are separated from their primordial unity or the gaping space below the Earth on which Earth rests. In Hesiod's Theogony, Chaos was the first thing to exist: at first Chaos came to be but next came Gaia, Tartarus and Eros.
Unambiguously born from Chaos were Erebus and Nyx. For Hesiod, Chaos, like Tartarus, though personified enough to have borne children, was also a place, far away, underground and gloomy, beyond which lived the Titans. And, like the earth, the ocean, and the upper air, it was also capable of being affected by Zeus' thunderbolts. Passages in Hesiod's Theogony suggest that Chaos was located below Earth but above Tartarus. Primal Chaos was sometimes
Greek means emptiness, vast void, chasm, abyss, from the verb, gape, be wide open, etc., from Proto-Indo-European, cognate to Old English geanian, to gape, whence English yawn. It may also mean space, the expanse of air, the nether abyss or infinite darkness.
Pherecydes of Syros interprets chaos as water, like something formless which can be differentiated. Hesiod and the Pre-Socratics use the Greek term in the context of cosmogony.
Hesiod's Chaos has been interpreted as eitherthe gaping void above the Earth created when Earth and Sky are separated from their primordial unity or the gaping space below the Earth on which Earth rests. In Hesiod's Theogony, Chaos was the first thing to exist: at first Chaos came to be but next came Gaia, Tartarus and Eros.
Unambiguously born from Chaos were Erebus and Nyx. For Hesiod, Chaos, like Tartarus, though personified enough to have borne children, was also a place, far away, underground and gloomy, beyond which lived the Titans. And, like the earth, the ocean, and the upper air, it was also capable of being affected by Zeus' thunderbolts. Passages in Hesiod's Theogony suggest that Chaos was located below Earth but above Tartarus. Primal Chaos was sometimes
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