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Phanes was a deity of light and goodness, whose name meant "to bring light" or "to shine"; [6] [7] a first-born deity, he emerged from the abyss and gave birth to the universe. [7] Nyx (Night) is variously said to be Phanes' daughter [4] or older wife; she is the counterpart of Phanes and is considered by Aristophanes the first deity.
Metis was an Oceanid nymph, one of the 3000 daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys, [5] and a sister of the Potamoi (river-gods), which also numbered 3000. Metis gave her cousin Zeus a potion to cause his father Cronus , the supreme ruler of the cosmos, to vomit out his siblings their father had swallowed out of fear of ...
Proclus relates that Phanes passes on his rule to Nyx by giving her a sceptre which he created himself, handing it on to her willingly, and that after her own time as ruler, she too passes on the sceptre voluntarily, giving it to her son Uranus. [134] When Phanes gives her the sceptre, he seemingly also confers upon her the gift of prophecy. [135]
Phanes of Halicarnassus (Ancient Greek: Φάνης) was a wise council man, a tactician, and a mercenary from Halicarnassus, serving the Egyptian pharaoh Amasis II (570–526 BC). Most of what history recounts of Phanes is from the account of Herodotus in his grand historical text, the Histories .
Doris, the wife of the sea-god Nereus; Idyia (Ίδυια), wife of the Colchian king Aeetes, mother of Medea; Leuce, first wife of Hades, became a white poplar tree; Metis, Zeus' first wife, whom Zeus impregnated with Athena and then swallowed; Styx, goddess of the river Styx; Theia, mother of the Cercopes; For a more complete list, see List of ...
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The egg produced the hermaphroditic god Phanes who gave birth to the first generation of gods and is the ultimate creator of the cosmos. Pherecydes of Syros in his lost Heptamychos ("The seven recesses"), around 6th century BC, claimed that there were three eternal principles: Chronos, Zas and Chthonie (the chthonic). The semen of Chronos was ...
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