It’s been a while since we’ve discussed some Greek mythology and even longer since we discussed one of the primordial deities. today’s we discuss Erebus the primordial God of Darkness who many consider along with his wife to have been the first to primordial beings to have come from chaos. the exact order of these beings does change depending on your source but if we go with Hesiod then we know that he was definitely part of the first five primordial beings that Kaos gave birth to quite often people confuse Arabists and Nix because night and darkness are things that go hand in hand but Erebus symbolized the darkness and all things inside of it whereas Nix symbolized the night with that being sent the task of spread in this darkness across the sky did falter Nix we can almost look at Erebus as this dark mist that Nix would unleash and must paint the sky with when it was nighttime their children Humaira and aether would then sweep the starkness away bringing with them a new day from chaos came forth Erebus and black night but of night two were born aether and de whom she conceived and bore from union in love of Erebus Hesiod doesn’t really mention urbis in any story or in any great detail but that is the description he gives in his Theogony together Erebus and Nix fathered and mothered many deities and some of these included Hypnose Styx nemesis Thanatos and the Mariah along with her mara and aether who we mentioned earlier before the likes of Hyperion Helios Apollo and any other deity associated of the Sun the ancient Greeks or Erebus and aether as the sources of day and light and that is how they explain the cycle as opposed to the Sun.
Erebus The First God of Darkness
Erebus and Tartarus were also today teas that were closely linked as some Sauron day came Erebus retreated to the darkest recesses of Tartarus because of this Erebus can must be considered as the first god of the underworld and it’s this association of Tartarus that led to Erebus becoming a tome that referred to a place in between the earth and the under their souls would have to travel through I know this video has been rather short but when compared to the Olympians we just really don’t know much about the primordial generation Erebus himself is probably the least discussed of the initial five but that’s not to say that he wasn’t important the ancient Greeks used eros as a way to explain the darkness and in turn its relationship of light why so many places may have been darker than others Erebus and Tartarus also gave us the first concept of the Greek underworld that poets and storytellers were then heavily expanding upon.
