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  3. 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)
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    Eurynome

Eurynome

The Goddess of All Things. Eurynome was the mother goddess and ultimate Creator goddess. Eurynome was possibly also a sun and moon goddess.

According to Apollonius of Rhodes, he wrote in the Argonautica that the first being was the goddess Eurynome, the daughter of Ocean or Oceanus.

Apollonius' Eurynome may or may not be the same as the Oceanid nymph named Eurynome. Both were daughters of Oceanus but according to Apollonius, Oceanus wasn't a Titan; instead, Oceanus was primordial water. Apollonius' Oceanus was more like Hesiod's Chaos than Hesiod's Titan Oceanus.

Eurynome and Ophion fashioned the Cosmic Egg which created the world such as the land, sea and heaven, and then populated it with animals. Eurynome with her consort Ophion were the first to rule at Olympus before they were displaced by the Titans, Rhea and Cronus. Cronus fought with Ophion while Rhea wrestled with Eurynome, and they were flung from heaven into the depths of the Ocean.

This means that Apollonius' account replaced Gaea and Uranus with Eurynome and Ophion.

There is a different and rather dubious account told by Robert Graves about Eurynome and Ophion in his so-called Pelasgus Creation Myth.

See Eurynome and Ophion in the Creation.

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Eurynome, Εὐρυνόμη – "wide-wandering".

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Argonautica was written by Apollonius of Rhodes.

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See also Eurynome (Nymph).

Ophion, Oceanus (or Titans, Oceanus), Cronus, Rhea.

Creation, Eurynome and Ophion.

Jimmy Joe Timeless Myths

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)
Eurynome and Ophion

Eurynome and Ophion

Apollonius Rhodius described a creation myth that was very different from that of Hesiod's Theogony. Apollonius' account is very short and rather sketchy. Apollonius began the myth as one of the songs sang by Orpheus (Ὀρφεύς) after the departure o...

April 9th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Eurynome

Eurynome

Eurynome (Εὐρυνόμη) was the daughter of Oceanus and Tethys; she was one of the 3000 Oceanids. By Zeus, Eurynome was the mother of the Graces, and possibly of Asopus, the river god in Sicyon. However, Asopus was usually referred to as her brother, ...

August 31st, 2002 • Jimmy Joe
Oceanus

Oceanus

According to Homer and Apollonius of Rhodes, Oceanus wasn't a Titan like in Hesiod's Theogony. Rather, he was primeval Ocean. See also the Titans, Oceanus. According to Homer, the gods arose from Oceanus and Tethys. Like Hesiod, the river Ocean (o...

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Ophion

Ophion

Primordial snake or World Serpent. Ophion was a snake created by Eurynome who rolled the air and winds into a living being. According to the Argonautica, Apollonius of Rhodes wrote a very brief account of the Creation that was very different from ...

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Orphic Creation

Orphic Creation

The Orphic Creation Myth is another scenario of the Cosmic Egg origin, but without the Creator Goddess, Eurynome (see Eurynome and Ophion). Behind the myth is the religion of salvation for the human soul. This religion was named after the mythical...

April 9th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Oceanus

Oceanus

Titan and god of the river Oceanus (Ocean). Oceanus was the eldest son of Uranus and Gaea. The river Oceanus was said to flow in a circular stream around the earth, which was conceived of as a flat disk. Oceanus married his sister Tethys. All of h...

April 19th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Homeric Creation

Homeric Creation

In the Iliad, Homer only briefly alluded to the creation. Hera seduced Zeus at Mount Ida in the hope of turning the tide against the Trojans by lulling her husband to sleep. To seduce Zeus, Hera required aid from other gods. First, she sought aid ...

April 9th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
Obscure Creation Myths

Obscure Creation Myths

Hesiod was the not the only Greek poet who wrote about the Creation and the origin of the gods and mankind. Hesiod's account is just one kind. The world was created from Chaos first, and then by the World Parents – Gaea (Earth) and Uranus (Heaven)...

April 9th, 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
Cosmogony of Diodorus Siculus

Cosmogony of Diodorus Siculus

According to the 1st century BC historian Diodorus Siculus, Oceanus and Tethys were the source of all gods. To Diodorus, Uranus was the first king, and not really a god at all. Uranus was the first to gather people together into the first walled c...

April 9th, 1999 • Jimmy Joe
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