hereticalheraldry:

Primordial Deities: born from the void of Chaos. AKA the Protogenoi (firstborn)

Chaos (m) “emptiness, vast void, chasm, abyss”. infinite abyss and darkness. the first thing to exist. foundation of reality.

Ananke (f) “force/constraint/necessity”. inevitability, compulsion. daughter and consort of Chaos. most powerful dictator of all fate and circumstance. Mother of the Fates. symbol: spindle. “Even the gods don’t fight against Ananke.” Roman: Necessitas

Achlys (f) “mist”: eternal Night before Chaos, the mist of death. Misery, sadness, poisons.

Erebus/Erebos (m) “deep darkness, shadow”. Roman: Scotus

Nyx (f) “night”. paired with consort Erebus, mother of a number of primordial gods. Roman: Nox

Aether (m): upper air (breathed by the gods).

Hemera (f) “day”. daughter of Erebus and Nyx. Female counterpart and consort of her brother Aether (light). Roman: Dies

Aion (m): unbounded time. symbol: ouroboros, hoop.

Chronos (m) “time”: linear time. symbol: Zodiac wheel. Roman equivalent: Saturn

Phanes/Protogonus (intersex) “first-born.” connected with Ericapaeus (”power”) and Metis (”thought”), also Dionysus. Intersex god, emerged from a cosmic egg, entertwined with a serpent. Equated with Eros and Mithra. Deity of light and goodness.

Gaia/Gaea (f) “land, earth”. Earth, ancestral mother of all life, parent of Uranus; coupled with him to produce the Titans and Giants; coupled with Pontus to produce the primordial sea gods. Roman: Terra

The Ourea (”mountains”), m and f children of Gaia alone. 9 of them: Aitna, Athos, Helikon, Kithairon, Nysos, Olympus, Oreios, Parnes, Tmolus.

Pontus (m) “sea”. child of Gaia alone. With Gaia, fathered Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys, his consort Ceto, and Eurybia. With Thalassa he fathered the Telchines and all sea life.

Thalassa (f) “sea”. consort of Pontus.

Tartarus (m). personification of a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked.

Uranus/Ouranos (m) “sky, heaven”. Father Sky, the son and husband of Gaia. Roman: Caelus

Tekmor (f), limit and end of life, a universal principle of natural order. Appeared with Poros (path). also Skotos (darkness).

Nessoi (f, plural) “islands”. goddesses of islands.

Ophion/Ophioneus (m) “serpent” and Eurynome (f) ruled the world before cast down by Cronus and Rhea. symbols: egg and serpents.

Eros (m) “desire”. god of attraction. sometimes son of Aphrodite and Ares. Winged. Roman: Cupid