In Greek mythology, Chaos or Khaos is the primeval state of existence from which the first gods appeared. In Greek it is Χαος, which is usually pronounced similarly to "house", but correctly in ancient Greek as "kh-a-oss"; it means "gaping void", from the verb χαινω "gape, be wide open", Indo_European *"ghen_", *"ghn_"; compare English "chasm" and "yawn", Anglo_Saxongeanian = "to gape".
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The original meaning of Χαος was "Space, the great outer void".
Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, described Chaos as "rather a crude and indigested mass, a lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, of jarring seeds and justly Chaos named". From that, its meaning evolved into the modern familiar "complete disorder", and the word "Chaos" is used by astronomers in Mars placenames to mean "area of disorderly faulted terrain".
Chaos features three main characteristics:
it is a bottomless gulf where anything falls endlessly: That the Earth will emerge from it to offer a stable ground, radically contrasts with Chaos;
it is a place without any possible orientation, where anything falls in every direction;
it is a space that separates, that divides: after the Earth and the Sky parted, Chaos remains between both.
The Greekgods resembled human beings in their form and in their emotions, and they lived in a society that resembled human society in its levels of authority and power.
The seafaring Greek hero Odysseus alone survived this temptation by ordering his companions to block their own ears, to bind him to the mast of his ship, and to ignore all his entreaties to be allowed to follow the lure of the Sirens’ song.
Greek mythology also told how divinities interacted with heroes, a category of mortals who, though dead, were believed to retain power to influence the lives of the living.
The personification of the sky; the god of the heavens and husband of Gaea, the goddess of the earth.
The god of the sky and ruler of the gods of Mount Olympus.
He did not create either gods or mortals; he was their father in the sense of being the protector and ruler both of the Olympian family and of the human race.
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