Primordial deities[edit]

Ancient Greek English

Description
name name

The goddess of poisons, and the personification of misery and

Ἀχλύς (Akhlýs) Achlys
sadness. Said to have existed before Chaos itself.

Αἰθήρ (Aithḗr) Aether The god of light and the upper atmosphere.

The god of eternity, personifying cyclical and unbounded time.

Αἰών (Aiôn) Aion
Sometimes equated with Chronos.

Ἀνάγκη (Anánkē) Ananke The goddess of inevitability, compulsion, and necessity.

The personification of nothingness from which all of existence

Χάος (Cháos) Chaos sprang. Depicted as a void. Initially genderless, later on
described as female.

The god of empirical time, sometimes equated with Aion. Not to

Χρόνος (Chrónos) Chronos
be confused with the Titan Cronus(Kronos), the father of Zeus.

Ἔρεβος (Érebos) Erebus The god of darkness and shadow.

Ἔρως (Eros) Eros The god of love and attraction.

Γαῖα (Gaîa) Gaia (Gaea) Personification of the Earth (Mother Earth); mother of the Titans.

Ἡμέρα (Hēméra) Hemera The goddess of day.

Ὕπνος (Hypnos) Hypnos The personification of sleep.

 Ancient Greek English
Description
name name

Νέμεσις (Némesis) Nemesis The goddess of retribution.

Nῆσοι (Nē̂soi) The Nesoi The goddesses of the islands and sea.

Νύξ (Nýx) Nyx The goddess of night.

Οὔρεα (Oúrea) The Ourea The gods of mountains.

Φάνης (Phánēs) Phanes The god of procreation in the Orphic tradition.

Πόντος (Póntos) Pontus The god of the sea, father of the fish and other sea creatures.

The god of the deepest, darkest part of the underworld, the

Τάρταρος (Tártaros) Tartarus
Tartarean pit (which is also referred to as Tartarus itself).

Θάλασσα (Thálassa) Thalassa Personification of the sea and consort of Pontus.

God of Death. Brother to Hypnos (Sleep) and in some cases

Θάνατος (Thánatos) Thanatos
Moros (Doom)

Οὐρανός (Ouranós) Uranus The god of the heavens (Father Sky); father of the Titans.