In the Greek mythology the name Protogenoi (pl.; Gr. Πρωτογενοι, sing. Protogenos) means First Born or Primeval and are a group of deities who were born in the beginning of our universe. The Oricoli bust of Zeus, King of the Gods, in the collection of the Vatican Museum. ...

The Protogenoi are the first entities or beings that come into existence. They form the very fabric of our universe and as such are immortal. The Prôtogenoi are a group of gods from which all the other gods descend. Although generally believed to be the first gods produced from Chaos, some sources mention a pair of deities who were the parents of these Prôtogenoi. These deites represent various elements of nature.

These are the names who made up the Prôtogenoi.

• Khaos (Void) - neuter/ sexless

• Phanes (Generation) or Himeros (Eros elder - Procreation) - male
• Phusis (Nature) or Thesis (Creation) - female
• Erebos (Mists of Darkness) - male

• Aither (Mists of Light) - male

• Thalassa (Sea-surface) - female

• Hemera (Day) - female

• Nyx (Night) - female

• Ananke (Inevitability) - female
• Khronos (Time) - male
• Gaia (Earth) - female

• The Ourea (Mountains) - male
• The Nesoi (Islands) - female
• Ouranos (Heaven) - male

• Thetys (Thetis - Fresh Water) - female
• Okeanos (Ocean ) or Hydros (water) - male

with Aither (not offspring of Gaia)

• Pontos (Water, the Seas) - male
• Tartaros (the great stormy Hellpit, which was seen as both a deity and the personification) - male

Phanes is a Greek deity, hatched from the World-Egg by Kronos and Ananke, and is the primeval deity of procreation and the generation of new life. ... In Greek mythology, Himerus was the personification of lust and sexual desire, son of Aphrodite and Ares. ... Look up thesis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In Greek mythology, Erebus, or Érebos was a primordial god, personification of darkness, offspring of Chaos alone. ... Aithêr (Greek for Ether) is one of the Protogonos (first-born) the elemental god of the Bright, Glowing, Upper Air. ... In Greek mythology, Hemera was a primordial goddess, born of Erebus. ... In Greek mythology, Nyx (, Nox in Roman translation) was the primordial goddess of the night. ... In Greek mythology, Ananke (Greek ) was the personification of destiny, unalterable necessity and fate. ... In Greek mythology, Chronos (Χρονος in Greek) in pre-Socratic philosophical works is said to be the personification of time. ... Gaia (pronounced // or //) (land or earth, from the Greek ; variant spelling Gaea—see also Ge from ) is a Greek goddess personifying the Earth. ... In Greek mythology, Tethys was a Titaness and sea goddess who was both sister and wife of Oceanus. ... Oceanus or Okeanos refers to the ocean, which the Greeks and Romans regarded as a river circling the world. ... In Greek mythology, Pontus (or Pontos, sea) was an ancient, pre-Olympian sea-god, son of Gaia and Aether, the Earth and the Air. ... In Greek mythology, Tartarus, or Tartaros, is both a deity and a place in the underworld - even lower than Hades. ...

External links

• Theoi Project, Protogenoi the primeval gods, sources in classical literature