2023年3月9日 · Chaos was one of the primordial gods and, according to the common tradition, the very first being that came into existence. Best translated as “Abyss” or “Chasm,” Chaos usually assumed the form of a great and indeterminate void.

2022年11月29日 · Japanese gods and goddesses include everyone from powerful creator gods to minor, localized kami. Particularly notable is the sun goddess Amaterasu, held to be the divine ancestor of the first emperor of Japan, a lineage that remains unbroken into the current day.

2022年11月29日 · The Aztec gods and goddesses were a bloodthirsty group whose constant warring with each other led to a cycle of death and rebirth for all humanity. Each of the first four ages was ruled by a different deity, or “sun,” and each age ended in violence before a …

2023年3月9日 · Nyx, the personification of night, was generally regarded as one of the mysterious primordial gods. Along with her brother-consort Erebus, she inhabited the dark recesses of the Underworld. An immensely powerful being, she was respected and feared even by Zeus. In the common tradition, Nyx was a child of Chaos, the first entity of creation. She ...

2023年3月9日 · In truth at first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundation of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all ...

2022年11月29日 · Regarded as the mightiest of the gods, Set proved his strength in the nightly battles against Apophis, the chaos monster. Family. Set was born to the earth and sky gods Geb and Nut. His siblings included Osiris, Horus (Note: not in all mythological versions), Isis, and Nephthys. His grandfather was the sun god Ra .

2022年12月8日 · The gods agreed that Thor’s hammer was the finest of all the creations, but when Brokkr went to claim Loki’s head, he found that the god had fled using on speedy shoes. Thor helped find him, but Brokkr was still unable to claim Loki’s head, as the trickster god riddled his way out of trouble.

2022年11月29日 · The Norse gods and goddesses are the array of deities honored by ancient Nordic worshipers. They primarily came from two different tribes, the Aesir and the Vanir, but were united in their efforts to fight the jötnar, a tribe of giants dwelling in …

2023年3月9日 · Eros, loveliest of the Greek gods, was the personification of passion and procreation who emerged at the beginning of the cosmos. He was often imagined as Aphrodite’s companion. Later authors sometimes multiplied him into a …

2023年3月17日 · The Offspring of the Primordial Gods (123–232) Chaos and Gaia give rise to two separate genealogical lines. Chaos begets Erebus (“Darkness”) and Nyx (“Night”), who together become the parents of various deities and personifications, including Hemera (“Day”) and …