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Chaos (also spelled Khaos) was the first of the Protogenoi (primeval gods) and precedes the universe. He was followed in quick succession by Gaia (Earth), Tartarus (the Underworld) and Eros (Love the life-bringer). Khaos was the lower atmosphere which surrounded the earth - invisible air and gloomy mist. His name Khaos literally means the gap, the space between heaven and earth. Khaos was the Father or grandfather of the other substances of air: Nyx (Night), Erebos (Darkness), Aether (Light) and Hemera (Day), as well as the various emotion-affecting Daimones which drifted through it. he was also a god of fate like his daughter Nyx and granddaughters the The Moirai (The Fates).

Later authors defined Khaos as the chaotic mix of elements that existed in the primeval universe, confusing it with the primeval Mud of the Orphic cosmogonies, but this was not the original meaning.

Reign

Khaos was the non-personified concept of the gap between heaven and earth. In some versions of the myth, the egg of creation was born out of this gap encircled by Chronos (time) and Ananke (inevitability/ fate). They proceed to crack the egg and start the other Protogenoi.

Powers & Abilities

Khaos was an extremely powerful and formless Protogenoi Deity, and the first of its kind.

Unparalleled Nihilikinesis
- Nothingness Manipulation
- Destruction

Unparalleled Creation Manipulation
- Creation
- Creative Source
- Void Creation
Unparalleled Aerokinesis
Advanced Spatio-Chronokinesis
- Space-Time Manipulation
Advanced Psychokinesis
- Telekinesis
- Teleportation
- Flight
Nigh Omniscience
Protogenoi Physiology
- Embodiment of Creation & Oblivion
- Deity Creation
Nothingness Physiology
- Formlessness
Invulnerability
Rapid Regeneration
Absolute Immortality
Omniarch
Supreme Power

Family

No father or mother
Protogenoi (children): Ouranos, Ananke, Gaia, Nyx, Eros, and Erebos and Birds (With Eros)

Trivia

Name actually means "the gap".

Ancient Text

Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundations of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all men within them. From Chaos came forth Erebus and black Night; but of Night were born Aether and Day, whom she conceived and bare from union in love with Erebus. And Earth first bare starry Heaven, equal to herself, to cover her on every side, and to be an ever-sure abiding-place for the blessed gods. And she brought forth long Hills, graceful haunts of the goddess-Nymphs who dwell amongst the glens of the hills. She bare also the fruitless deep with his raging swell, Pontus, without sweet union of love. But afterwards she lay with Heaven and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. After them was born Cronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire.
- Hesiod, Theogony 116-138

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-|Children= [[Erebos]], [[Gaia]], [[Nyx]], [[Chronos]], [[Ananke]], and [[Birds]]
+|Children= [[Erebos]], [[Gaia]], [[Nyx]], [[Chronos]], [[Tartarus]], [[Anance]], and [[Birds]]
 |title = Chaos
 |Name(s): = Chaos, Khaos
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 |Roman Name = Aer
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-|imagecaption = Khaos shown by a white spot in black|Title: = The Beginner|Symbols: = Outer Space, the color Black}}'''Khaos''' ''(also spelled '''Chaos''')'' was the first of the [[Protogenoi]] (primeval gods) and precedes the universe. He was followed in quick succession by [[Gaia]] (Earth), [[Tartarus (Protogenoi)|Tartarus]] (the Underworld) and [[Eros (protogenos)|Eros]] (Love the life-bringer).
+|imagecaption = Chaos shown by a white spot in black|Title: = The Beginner|Symbols: = Outer Space, the color Black}}'''Chaos''' ''(also spelled '''Khaos''')'' was the first of the [[Protogenoi]] (primeval gods) and precedes the universe. He was followed in quick succession by [[Gaia]] (Earth), [[Tartarus (Protogenoi)|Tartarus]] (the Underworld) and [[Eros (protogenos)|Eros]] (Love the life-bringer).
-Khaos was the lower atmosphere which surrounded the earth - invisible air and gloomy mist. His name ''khaos'' literally means the gap, the space between heaven and earth. Khaos was the Father or grandfather of the other substances of air: [[Nyx]] (Night), [[Erebos]] (Darkness), [[Aether]] (Light) and [[Hemera]] (Day), as well as the various emotion-affecting Daimones which drifted through it. he was also a god of fate like his daughter Nyx and granddaughters the [[The Moirai (The Fates)]].
+Khaos was the lower atmosphere which surrounded the earth - invisible air and gloomy mist. His name ''Khaos'' literally means the gap, the space between heaven and earth. Khaos was the Father or grandfather of the other substances of air: [[Nyx]] (Night), [[Erebos]] (Darkness), [[Aether]] (Light) and [[Hemera]] (Day), as well as the various emotion-affecting Daimones which drifted through it. he was also a god of fate like his daughter Nyx and granddaughters the [[The Moirai (The Fates)]].
 Later authors defined Khaos as the chaotic mix of elements that existed in the primeval universe, confusing it with the primeval Mud of the Orphic cosmogonies, but this was not the original meaning.
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 ==Reign==
-Khaos was the non-personified concept of the gap between heaven and earth. In some versions of the myth, the egg of creation was born out of this gap encircled by Chronos (time) and Ananke (inevitability/ fate). They proceed to crack the egg and start the other protogenoi.
+Khaos was the non-personified concept of the gap between heaven and earth. In some versions of the myth, the egg of creation was born out of this gap encircled by Chronos (time) and Ananke (inevitability/ fate). They proceed to crack the egg and start the other [[Protogenoi]].
 == Powers & Abilities ==
-Khaos was an extremely powerful and formless Protogenoi Deity, and the first of it's kind.
+Khaos was an extremely powerful and formless [[Protogenoi]] Deity, and the first of its kind.
 * Unparalleled Nihilikinesis
 ** Nothingness Manipulation
 ** Destruction
 * Unparalleled Creation Manipulation
 ** Creation
 ** Creative Source
 ** Void Creation
 * Unparalleled Aerokinesis
 * Advanced Spatio-Chronokinesis
 ** Space-Time Manipulation
 * Advanced Psychokinesis
 ** Telekinesis
 ** Teleportation
 ** Flight
 * Nigh Omniscience
-* Protogenoi Physiology
+* [[Protogenoi]] Physiology
 ** Embodiment of Creation & Oblivion
 ** Deity Creation
 * Nothingness Physiology
 ** Formlessness
 * Invulnerability
 * Rapid Regeneration
 * Absolute Immortality
 * Omniarch
 * Supreme Power
 ==Family==
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 ==Ancient Text==
-Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundations of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all men within them. From Chaos came forth Erebus and black Night; but of Night were born Aether and Day, whom she conceived and bare from union in love with Erebus. And Earth first bare starry Heaven, equal to herself, to cover her on every side, and to be an ever-sure abiding-place for the blessed gods. And she brought forth long Hills, graceful haunts of the goddess-Nymphs who dwell amongst the glens of the hills. She bare also the fruitless deep with his raging swell, Pontus, without sweet union of love. But afterwards she lay with Heaven and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. After them was born Cronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire.<br />- Hesiod, ''Theogony'' 116-138
+Verily at the first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundations of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim [[Tartarus]] in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros (Love), fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all men within them. From Chaos came forth Erebus and black Night; but of Night were born Aether and Day, whom she conceived and bare from union in love with Erebus. And Earth first bare starry Heaven, equal to herself, to cover her on every side, and to be an ever-sure abiding-place for the blessed gods. And she brought forth long Hills, graceful haunts of the goddess-Nymphs who dwell amongst the glens of the hills. She bare also the fruitless deep with his raging swell, Pontus, without sweet union of love. But afterwards she lay with Heaven and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys. After them was born Cronos the wily, youngest and most terrible of her children, and he hated his lusty sire.<br />- Hesiod, ''Theogony'' 116-138