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Tartarus

Tartarus was born together with Nyx, Erebus, Gaea, and Eros ("Love"), out of Chaos.

Tartarus was the personification of the darkest and deepest region of the Underworld. This was the region where Uranus had thrown the Hundred-Handed giant and the Cyclopes. Later, this was where Cronus and the other Titans who had opposed Zeus were imprisoned and guarded by the Hundred-Handed giant.

See Creation, Theogony of Hesiod.

By his sister Gaea ("Earth"), they were parents of the monsters – Typhon and possibly Echidna.

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Tartarus, Tartaros, Τάρταρος.

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Creation.

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By Jimmy Joe

Primeval Deities:

  • • Chaos
  • • Nyx (Night)
  • • Erebus (Darkness)
  • • Tartarus
  • • Aether
  • • Hemera
  • • Eros (Cupid)
  • • Gaea (Earth)
  • • Uranus (Sky)
  • • Pontus (Sea)
  • • Nereus
  • • Phorcys
  • • Eurybia
  • • Demiurge
  • • Oceanus
  • • Eurynome
  • • Ophion
  • • Chronus (Time)
  • • Adrasteia
  • • Protogonus (Phanes)
Tartarus

Tartarus

Tartarus was the deepest region of the Underworld. It was said that it took nine days and nine nights for an anvil to fall from the earth's surface to the very bottom of Tartarus. Tartarus was the area where Zeus and the Olympians had confined Cro...

September 29th, 2002 • Jimmy Joe
Erebus (Darkness)

Erebus (Darkness)

Erebus was born together with Nyx , Gaea , Tartarus, and Eros ("Love"), out of Chaos . With his sister Nyx, Erebus was the father of Aether ("Upper Air") and Hemera ("Day"). See Creation, Theogony of Hesiod . Apart from the part he played in the C...

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Typhon

Typhon

Typhon was a giant winged monster with a hundred heads. Typhon (Τυφών) was an offspring of Gaea ("Earth") and Tartarus , and according to Apollodorus, the creature was born in Cilicia. Typhon was a gigantic winged monster that was part man and par...

June 1st, 2000 • Jimmy Joe
Gaea (Earth)

Gaea (Earth)

The personification of earth and the goddess of the earth. Gaea was also known as Gaia or Ge, but to the Romans she was known as Terra Mater and Tellus . According to Diodorus Siculus, her name was also Titaea. Gaea was born together with Nyx ("Ni...

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Titans

Titans

According to Hesiod, the word Titan (Τιτησι) seemed to mean "Strainer", because they strained and performed some presumptuous, fearful deeds and vengeance would come after it. Whereas the Olympians lived on Olympus, the home of the Titans was Othr...

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Primeval Deities

Primeval Deities

The Ancient Deities found on this page consist of the primeval beings that came into existence since the beginning of time, and who were involved with the creation of the universe. These are deities who came before the time of the Titans and the O...

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Chaos

Chaos

Long after the "beginning of time", the void known as Chaos came into existence in the universe. Out of Chaos, or together with it, came Gaea ("Earth"), Tartarus and Eros ("Love"). Without a mate, Chaos bore Nyx ("Night") and Erebus ("Darkness"). ...

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Echidna

Echidna

Echidna was a monster, part woman and part snake. She was the daughter of Phorcys and Ceto , or perhaps of Tartarus and Gaea . By Typhon, Echidna was the mother of many monstrous offspring: Cerberus , Chimaera , Orthus , the Hydra , the Nemean Lio...

June 1st, 2000 • Jimmy Joe
Gaia

Gaia

Gaia: Beautiful Mother Earth Goddess and Bearer of Greek Gods Gaia, Titan of the first generation, was mother earth in Greek mythology. She was there at the beginning of all things. Along with her son Uranus, she was the start of all life. But rea...

April 2nd, 2002 • Timeless Myths
Nyx (Night)

Nyx (Night)

Goddess of the night. Nyx was identified by the Romans as Nox, and was often identified as just Night. Nyx was born together with Erebus , Gaea , Tartarus, and Eros ("Love"), out of Chaos. By her brother Erebus, Nyx bore Aether ("Upper Air") and H...

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe

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