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When Was Chaos Born?

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When Was Chaos Born?

"700 B.C." The Nothingness From Which All Else Sprang. Chaos is a character in Hesiod

Hesiod
The Works and Days (Ancient Greek: Ἔργα καὶ Ἡμέραι, romanized: Érga kaì Hēmérai) is a didactic poem written by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod around 700 BC. It is in dactylic hexameter and contains 828 lines.
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and Homer's myth. He débuts, with his appearance in around 700 B.C. and usually ends at around the 9th Century.

How was chaos born?

According to them, together with Aether and Erebus, Chaos was one of the three sons of Chronos. She was a master artist who managed to shape an egg from the formless Aether. And out of this egg, Phanes (or Protogenos) came out, a bisexual deity who proceeded to mate with himself to give birth to everything existing.

Where did chaos come from?

The English word chaos is borrowed from the Greek word that means "abyss." In ancient Greece, Chaos was originally thought of as the abyss or emptiness that existed before things came into being, and then the word chaos was used to refer to a specific abyss: the abyss of Tartarus, the underworld.

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