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"Protogenoi"
PRIMORDIAL GODS
 The primordial gods or "Protogenoi" of Greek mythology were the most basic
components of the universe which emerged fully-formed at creation. They
included Earth, Air, Sea, Sky, Fresh Water, Underworld, Darkness, Night, Light,
Day, Procreation and Time.

ANANKE The Protogeonos of inevitability, compulsion and

necessity. She was the mate of Chronus (Time) and like him OUREA The Protogenoi of the mountains. Their rocky forms
was an incorporeal, serpentine being who twisted circling

PONTUS (Pontos) The Protogenos of the sea. He sprung from

Gaea the Earth at the beginning of creation, when the elements

CHRONOS (Khronos) The Protogenos of time was the very first NYX The Protogenos of night, Nyx drew the dark mists of her
being to emerge at creation self-formed. He was a three-headed, consort, Erebus, across the heavens at night, cloaking the bright
incorporeal being with serpentine tail, who circled the whole of light of the heavenly aether. Her anthropomorphic form was of a

HEMERA The Protogenos of the day, rose up from the ends of

the earth to scatter the dark mists of night, spread across the
heavens by her mother Nyx, and reveal to the earth below the

GAEA (Gaia) The Protogenos of the earth. Mother Earth

emerged at the beginning of creation to form the foundation of the
universe. Gaea was one of the few Protogenoi to be depicted in
TETHYS The Protogenos of the flow of fresh-water. She was an
aspect of all-nourishing Mother Nature. From Tethys and her
husband Oceanus the rivers, springs and clouds drew their
URANUS (Ouranos) The Protogenos of the solid dome of
heaven, whose form stretched from one horizon to the other. He
sprung forth from Gaea the Earth at the beginning of creation.

THALASSA The Protogenos of the sea or sea's surface. She

was born of Aether (light) and Hemera (day). Mixing with the
deep waters of Pontus (sea) Thalassa spawned the schools of
OCEANUS (Okeanos) The Protogenos of the great earth-
encircling, fresh-water river Oceanus. From his flow every river,
spring and rain-bearing cloud was sprung. His anthropomorphic