Chaos - in one ancient Greek myth of creation, the dark, silent abyss from which all things came into existence. According to the Theogony of Hesiod, Chaos generated the solid mass of Earth, from which arose the starry, cloud-filled Heaven. Mother Earth and Father Heaven, personified respectively as Gaea and her offspring Uranus, were the parents of the Titans.In a later theory, Chaos is the formless matter from which the cosmos, or harmonious order, was created. Gaea - She was the mother and wife of Father Heaven, Uranus. They were the parents of the first creatures, the Titans, the Cyclopes, and the Giants - the Hecatoncheires . Uranus hated the monsters, and, even though they were his children, locked them in a secret place in the earth. Gaea was enraged at this favoritism and persuaded their son Cronos to overthrow his father. He emasculated Uranus, and from his blood Gaea brought forth the Giants, and the three avenging goddesses the Erinyes.
Her last and most terrifying offspring was Typhon, a 100-headed monster, who, although conquered by the god Zeus, was believed to spew forth the molten lava flows of Mount Etna. The lowest region of the underworld. Hesiod claimed that a brazen anvil would take none days and nights to fall from heaven to earth, and nine days and nights to fall from earth to Tartarus. Tartarus rose out of Chaos and was the destination of wicked souls. Uranus banished his children the Cyclopes and the Hecatoncheires to Tartarus, as Zeus also did to the Titans. Other famous inhabitants of Tartarus include Sisyphus, Ixion, Tantalus, Salmoneus, Tityus, Ophion, and the daughters of Danaus. The god of love. He was thought of as a handsome and intense young man, attended by Pothos longing or Himeros desire. Later mythology made him the constant attendant of his mother, Aphrodite, goddess of love.
In Greek mythology, Thanatos was the god who personified death. He appears in the Theogony of Hesiod as the son of.. "Night gave birth to hideous Moros and black Ker and then to Death and Sleep and to the brood of Dreams." The Greek poet Hesiod therefore claims that Thanatos is the brother of Hypnos, the god of Sleep. Indeed, the two gods together play a role in Homer's Iliad. In one poignant scene of the epic, Thanatos and Hypnos join forces to remove the hero Sarpedon's body from the battle field. This scene features Zeus speaking to Apollo: