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The "time" which Aion represents is perpetual, unbounded, ritual, and cyclic: The future is a returning version of the past, later called aevum (see Vedic Sanskrit Ṛtú). This kind of time contrasts with empirical, linear, progressive, and historical time that Chronos represented, which divides into past, present, and future. [2]: 274
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Chronos (/ ˈ k r oʊ n ɒ s,-oʊ s /; Ancient Greek: Χρόνος, romanized: Khronos, lit. 'Time'; [kʰrónos] , Modern Greek: ['xronos] ), also spelled Chronus , is a personification of time in Greek mythology , who is also discussed in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature.
Bangun Bangun (Suludnon mythology): the deity of universal time who regulates cosmic movements [2]; Patag'aes (Suludnon mythology): awaits until midnight then enters the house to have a conversation with the living infant; if he discovers someone is eavesdropping, he will choke the child to death; their conversation creates the fate of the child, on how long the child wants to live and how the ...
The primary place where the difference between the Aion and Chronos is noted seems to be the wikipedia pages for Aion and Chronos themselves, which is obviously problematic. It doesn't help that the primordial Chronos/Khronos/Aion/Aeon was sometimes conflated with the Titan Cronus/Kronos/Saturn, aka Zeus' father (and also at times referred to ...
In Orphic cosmogony Aether was the offspring of Chronus (Time), the first primordial deity, and the brother of Chaos and Erebus. And made from (or placed in) Aether was the cosmic egg , from which hatched Phanes/Protogonus , so Aether was sometimes said to be his father. [ 8 ]
One of the Greek primordial deities, the births of Ananke and her brother and consort, Chronos (the personification of time, not to be confused with the Titan Cronus), were thought to mark the division between the eon of Chaos and the beginning of the cosmos. Ananke is considered the most powerful dictator of fate and circumstance.
It is one of two words that the ancient Greeks had for 'time'; the other being chronos (χρόνος). Whereas the latter refers to chronological or sequential time, [2] kairos signifies a good or proper time for action. In this sense, while chronos is quantitative, kairos has a qualitative, permanent nature. [3]