Chaos

First there was formless void and then Chaos sprang out of it. In Greek mythology, it is said that in the beginning there was only Chaos out of which everything sprang up. Thus in the ancient cosmogony Chaos became the name for the wide-spread confusion that prevailed before it shaped itself into order under the breath of the spirit of life.

Erebus the primordial god of Love, Tartarus the unknowable place where death dwells, and the Nyx the Night were first born out of Chaos. And with their birth, Cosmos the order began to take shape. All else was still empty, silent, endless, and darkness.

Erebus slept with Nyx, who gave birth to a son Aether the sky or the heavenly light, and a daughter Hemera the Day or the earthly light. Aether and Hemera gave birth to Gaia the earth. She gave birth to Uranus the Heaven on her own, became his wife, and became mother of his children. She also bore on her own the hills (Ourea), and Pontus (Sea). Nyx alone produced Doom, Fate, Death, Sleep, Dreams, Nemesis, and others that come to man out of darkness. That was the beginning of the Cosmos the order and the world.