Chronus (Time)

Before the world and the gods were created, there was nothing but Time which the Greeks called Chronus or Khronos, and Necessity who was named Adrasteia (Ananke). This was a period called the Unaging Time because time was unlimited and indeterminate, which some people called Aeon or Aion. Chronus was something like the Aeons of the Gnostic myths and Manichaeism: supreme beings which were either superior angels or gods.

Different writers give different descriptions for Chronus. To some he was seen as a great winged serpent or dragon with one head of a bull and another head of a lion. He also had a third head: that of the god.

With Adrasteia, they engendered several other beings including Chaos, Erebus and Aether. Chronus then fashioned the Cosmic Egg (World Egg) with Aether. When the World Egg hatched, Protogonus (First-born) was born. Protogonus was known by another name: Phanes, god of light. Protogonus or Phanes was the first god and the Creator god.