Chaos - Mythopedia
Mar 9, 2023 · The main literary source for Chaos’ origins and mythological role is Hesiod(eighth/seventh century BCE), whose Theogony makes Chaos the first entity of the cosmos. Further references to Chaos are scattered throughout Greek literature, and can be found for instance in the parodic cosmogony of the comedy Birds by Aristophanes (ca. 450–ca. 385 ...
Japanese Gods - Mythopedia
Nov 29, 2022 · Japanese gods and goddesses include everyone from powerful creator gods to minor, localized kami. Particularly notable is the sun goddess Amaterasu, held to be the divine ancestor of the first emperor of Japan, a lineage that remains unbroken into the current day.
Nyx - Mythopedia
Mar 9, 2023 · Nyx, daughter of Chaos and personification of the night, was among the first Greek gods of the cosmos. She bore numerous children, both with her brother-consort Erebus as well as on her own, representing various personifications and abstractions.
Eris - Mythopedia
Sep 7, 2023 · The goddess Eris represented strife in all its forms. Hesiod described her as a cruel, “hard-hearted” [2] figure who inspired and reveled in every kind of conflict. It is hardly surprising, then, that Eris was closely associated with destructive war gods such as Ares and Enyo ; indeed, she was never far away when a battle was being fought.
Amaterasu – Mythopedia
Nov 29, 2022 · With Amaterasu in hiding, the world plunged into darkness and chaos. Thus began the first winter, a hard time for a world used to basking in the sun. The kami looked down upon the world and, seeing the chaos left in Amaterasu’s absence, decided they must bring her back. Though they asked her to return and described the chaos caused by her ...
Set – Mythopedia
Nov 29, 2022 · In either case, his unconventional birth was thought to foreshadow his representation of disorder and chaos. The Murder of Osiris. The most important extant myth from Ancient Egypt was the murder of Osiris. The tale, which included nearly every significant god and goddess, was unique in that it managed to capture a sense of the Egyptian value ...
Aztec Gods - Mythopedia
Nov 29, 2022 · The Aztec gods and goddesses were a bloodthirsty group whose constant warring with each other led to a cycle of death and rebirth for all humanity. Each of the first four ages was ruled by a different deity, or “sun,” and each age ended in violence before a new sun was chosen.
Nuwa - Mythopedia
Dec 1, 2022 · Nuwa (女媧) is a popular Chinese goddess associated with fertility and marriage. She created mankind in two different origin myths; once by shaping people out of clay, and once by repopulating the world after a flood.
Erebus - Mythopedia
Mar 9, 2023 · Aristophanes: A parodic (or semi-parodic) cosmogony in the comedy Birds (414 BCE) makes Erebus one of the first beings of the cosmos rather than a son of Chaos. Plato: Timaeus (fourth century BCE) imagines a new philosophical cosmogony centered around a mysterious “Demiurge” rather than figures such as Erebus, Nyx, and Chaos. Roman
Morrigan – Mythopedia
Mar 17, 2023 · Hennessy, W. M. "The Ancient Irish Goddess of War." Revue Celtique 1 (1870): 27–57. Herbert, Máire. “Transmutations of an Irish Goddess.” In The Concept of the Goddess, edited by Sandra Billington and Miranda Green, 141–51. London: Routledge, 1996.