In Greek mythology, Phanes ("light") or Protogonus ("first-born") was the primeval deity of procreation and the generation of new life; his other names included Ericapaeus ("power") and Metis ("thought"). He is often equated with Eros and Mithras and has been depicted as a hermaphroditic deity emerging from a cosmic egg, entwined with a serpent. // Greek mythology consists in part of a large collection of narratives that explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines. ... Look up deity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In Greek mythology, Eros was the god responsible for lust, love, and sex; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity. ... Mithras and the Bull: fresco from the mithraeum at Marino, Italy, (3rd century) Mithras was the central savior god of Mithraism, a syncretic Hellenistic mystery religion of male initiates that developed in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC and was practiced in the Roman Empire from... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Serpent is a word of Latin origin (serpens, serpentis) which is ultimately derived from the Sanskrit term serp, that is normally substituted for snake in a specifically mythic or religious context, in order to distinguish such creatures from the field of biology. ...
Phanes was believed to have been hatched from the World-Egg by Chronos and Aether. He was the ruler of the gods and passed the sceptre of kingship to his daughter Nyx, who later gave it to her son Ouranos. A world egg or cosmic egg is a mythological motif found in the creation myths of many cultures and civilizations. ... In Greek mythology, Chronos (ΧÏονος in Greek) in pre-Socratic philosophical works is said to be the personification of time. ... Aether (upper air), in Greek mythology, was the personification of the upper sky, space and heaven. ... A sceptre or scepter is an ornamental staff held by a ruling monarch, a prominent item of kingly regalia. ... This article is about the Greek goddess. ...
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