Children of Nyx

Nyx/Nox- as mentioned in Creation was sometimes seen as the first goddess, sometimes a child of Panes, sometimes of Chaos, her consort was Erebus with whom she had many children, she also had some through parthenogenesis. She was the goddess of night and rarely appeared in myth. The most prominent tale she featured in was told by Homer, when Hypnos, her son, fled to her to escape Zeus' rage after he put him to sleep at the behest of Hera so she could send a storm to plague Heracles' ship. Zeus would have thrown Hypnos into the sea if he had not hid behind his mother Nyx but fearing Nyx's wrath, Zeus left Hypnos alone.

Erebus/Erebos- was the personification of darkness, sibling and consort to Nyx. A region in the Underworld was also named for him. He was said to envelope the edges of the world and the Underworld with dark mists.

The children linked to these deites are: Aether, Hemera, Eros, Momus, Moros, Thanatos, Hypnos, Oneiroi, Charon, Eris, Ponos, Hesperides, Keres, Moirai, Nemesis, Apate, Dolus, Lyssa, Maniae, Eleos, Sophrosyne, Philotes, Geras, Epiphron, Hybris, and Oizys.

Aether/Aither/Acmon- The first born, he was the personification of upper air, that is the air that the gods' breathed, not ordinary air. His name meant light and as such the air he personified was considered bright and glowing. This was also the boundary that seperated Tartarus from the rest of the world. Ouranos the Titan of the sky, depicited as a brass dome, was above him and the ordinary air was below him, this was known as Aer/Khaos and was seen as another aspect of the first Chaos/Khaos, the invisible air between heaven and earth. Erebus/Erebos was the third personification of air, the dark mists in the land of the dead.
Normally seen as a child of Nyx and Erebus, he was also sometimes just a child of Erebus, a child of Anake and Khronos, just Khronos, or Chaos.
He a female counterpart in Aithre/Thea the Titaness of sight and shining light who was associated with gold, silver and jewels. He was paired with his sister Hemera and with her he was parent to Thalassa, sometimes Gaea/Gaia, and sometimes Ouranos. Gaia was also given to either have just appeared or to be a child of Hydrus, whilst Ouranos was sometimes just a child of Aether, or of Aether and Gaia, or of just Gaia, or of Nyx.
With Gaia he may have also been parent to the Algea, Dolus, Lyssa, Penthos, the Pseudologoi, Horkos/Horcus, Poena/Poine, Lethe, Aergia, and the Hysminae/Hysminai. The Algea, Horucs, Lethe, the Hysminae and the Pseudologoi may have been children of just Eris, Dolus of Erebus and Nyx, Lyssa of just Nyx.
By himself Aether was also possibly parent to the Nephelae/Nephelai, cloud nymphs, alternatively they were daughters of Tethys, or Okeanos.

Hemera- a daughter of Nyx and Erebus, or sometimes a daughter of Nyx and Chronos, or Chaos, and the personification of day. She was consort to her brother Aether and with him parent to Gaia, Ouranos and Thalassa, or just Thalassa.
She lived in Tartarus with her mother and left it as her mother was returning. She was displaced by the dawn goddess Eos in myth with Eos taking greater importance.

Eros/Cupid- the personification of procreation, also a god of love and desire, sometimes he had no parents, other times he was a child of Chaos or Nyx or Erebus and Nyx, or he was a later god and a child of Aphrodite and Ares, though it is possible there were too Eros, one the primordial deity and the other the playful child of Aphrodite.
According to Hesiod, he emerged without parents after Chaos, Gaia and Tartarus. Aristophanes says he hatched from an egg laid in Erebus and that he had golden wings. Thus he could be linked to Phanes/Protogonos, a primordial deity of procreation and new life who emerged from an egg with gold wings and was entwined with a serpent. He was a child of Ananke and Chronos.

Momos/Momus- the god of daimon (spirit) of satire, mockery, blame, censure, ridicule, complaint, scorn and criticism. A child of Nyx and Erebus or just Nyx.
He criticised the gods and was exiled from Olympus for it. He criticised Hephaestus for making man without a door in breast through which his thoughts could be seen, and when he was asked to judge a contest between Zeus, Poseidon and Athena over their creations- man, a bull and a house, he criticised all of them.  He criticised man for lacking a window in his heart so his neighbour could see his plans, the bull for not having eyes under its horns so it could see what it was attacking, and the house for being made without wheels. He mocked Zeus for his violent nature and his lust and for having two sons equally villainous. He also either viewed only Aphrodite as blameless or insulted her sandals. His twin was Oizys.
Interestingly he is now linked with Mardi Gras.
His counterpart is Eupheme the daimon of praise and good omens.

Moros- a son of Nyx and Erebus or just Nyx he was the god of doom.

Hypnos and Thanatos

Thanatos/Thanatus/Mors/Letus/Letum- the god of death, usually said to be specifically non-violent death as the Keres dealt with violent death, and twin of Hypnos/Somnus and son to Nyx and Erebus. Homer says Zeus charged him and his brother with taking the body of the hero Sarpedon from Troy and returning it to his homeland, Lycia. When Zeus ordered Thanatos to chain up King Sisyphus in Tartarus, as Sisyphus had told the river god Asopus that it was Zeus who took his daughter Aegina, Sisyphus asked Thanatos to demonstrate how his chains worked. Thanatos complied and was trapped until Ares freed him, tired of there being no death in warfare.
When King Admetus was to die Apollo persuaded the Moirai to take another in his place, when his parents refused his wife Alcestis offered herself. When Thanatos came for Alcestis Heracles wrestled him for her life and won.
He was often depicted as a winged youth or a youth carrying a butterfly, poppies or an upside down torch and with a sword, and was usually with his twin. He was displaced by Hermes who as a psychopomp guided the dead to the Underworld. Sometimes he was depicted as bearded.
His Roman counterpart Mors/Letus/Letum was in Roman art a male but in poetry a female, usually pale and clothed in black.

Hypnos and Nyx

Hypnos/Somnus- the god of sleep and twin to Thanatos, a son of Erebus and Nyx. He dwelt in a cave without a door and with poppies growing outside it. The sun did not shine in this cave and it was usually said to be in Erebus, said to have river of forgetfulness, Lethe, flowing through it.
With his brother Thanatos he was charged by Zeus to carry Sarpedon's body from Troy to Lycia.
He put Zeus to sleep at Hera's behest so that she could send a storm to attack Heracles' boat. When Zeus awoke he was in a rage and would have thrown Hypnos into the sea if he had not hid with his mother Nyx, who even Zeus feared. When Hera asked Hypnos to again put Zeus to sleep, during the Trojan War, promising him a throne of gold he refused until she offered him the Charite Pasithea as a wife. He then went to Poseidon letting him know that Zeus was asleep and that Poseidon could thus take action in the Trojan War.
He put Endymion to sleep with his eyes open at his own request, either so Endymion could watch his lover Selene or so that Hypnos could see his eyes.
He was depicted as a youth either bearded or beardless with wings on his shoulders or head, carrying an inverted torch or poppies or a jar with water from the river Lethe in it.
The Oneiroi were his brothers or children and helpers.

Morpheus

Oneiroi- The daimons of dreams they were said to be a thousand in number and dark winged. Either the children of Hypnos or of Nyx or Erebus and Nyx. They lived in a cave in Erebus and passed through a gate of horn to deliver prophetic dreams or a gate of ivory to deliver meaningless dreams. Ovid named three- Morpheus, Icelus/Icelos/Ikelos/Phobetor and Phantasos/Phantasus.
Morpheus was the leader of the Oneiroi and he appeared in the dreams of rulers in the form of a human, and he shaped dreams. He may have been the dream spirit sent by Zeus to Agamemnon in the Illiad. There was a wilted elm tree in his domain on which he hung fashioned dreams, which appeared as winged phantom shapes.
Phobetor was associated with nightmares and animals and monsters in dreams and he appeared in the mortal realm in the form of any animal he wished. His true name was Icelus/Icelos/Ikelos, which means semblance. The word phobia comes from his name.
Phantasos was associated with inanimate objects in dreams and it is from his name that the words fantasy and phantom likely come from.
There was also another daimon of nightmares- Epiales/Epialos/Epioles/Epialtes who may have been another of the Oneiroi.

The ferryman Charon

Charon/Kharon- a son of Erebus and Nyx he was a servant of Hades and ferryman to the dead. He received the dead from Hermes and ferried them across the river of pain Acheron/Akheron in exchange for an obol/danake coin that was placed in their mouth when they were buried. Those unburied or buried without the coin were left to wander the other side of Acheron for a hundred years and appeared as ghosts on earth.
He was shown as an ugly seaman in reddish-brown clothes with a ferryman's pole, bearded and with flashing, angry eyes possibly of a bluish-grey colour.
He could be linked with the Etruscan god Charun/Charu/Karun, he had pointed ears, snakes around his arms, blue skin, snakes in his hair, a vulture's hooked nose, tusks, fiery eyes, wings, and a beard, and he guarded the Underworld with a hammer. He guided the dead and may have punished or protected them with his hammer as well, and he was helped by Vanth a female demon who was a winged, benevolent guide to the dead.

Discord from Xena/ Hercules the Legendary Journeys

Eris/Discordia- the goddess of strife and discord. A daughter of Nyx or of Zeus and Hera. Hesiod said there were in fact two Strife's, one who was cruel and linked to war and battle, and one a daughter of Zeus who was kinder. She was linked with the war goddess Enyo, and Homer viewed them as one and the same.
She was given many children- Ponos (hard labour and toil, who may have been a son of Erebus and Nyx), Lethe (forgetfulness and oblivion, who may have been a daughter of Aether and Gaia), Limos/Limus (hunger), and Ate (delusion, folly, reckless impulse) whose father was Zeus, the Algea/Algos (pain, suffering, grief, distress), the Hysminae (non-martial fighting and combat), the Neikea/Neicea (quarrels, feuds, grievances), the Pseudologi (lies), and Horkos/Horcus (oath) (who all may have been children of Aether and Gaia as well), the Amphilogiai (disputes, debate), Dysnomia (lawlessness), the Phonoi (murder, killing, slaughter), the Androctasiae/Androktasiai (battlefield slaughter), and the Machae/Makhai (battle and combat).
Her most famous story is about the golden apple that started the Trojan War. Angry at not being invited to Peleus and Thetis' wedding, Eris threw a golden apple into the party, The Apple of Discord, which was enscribed kalliste/kallisti meaning for/to the most beautiful/the fairest. Athena, Hera and Aphrodite all laid claim to it and Zeus charged the prince of Troy Paris/Alexander with judging the winner as he had promised to award a golden crown to whoever had a bull better than this and when Ares disguised himself as a bull, Paris fairly awarded him the prize, thus it was the fairness that prompted Zeus to pick him to decide the fairest goddess. Paris picked Aphrodite when she promised him Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman in the world, for a wife.
When the couple Aedon and Polytechnos boasted to love each other more than Zeus and Hera, Hera sent Eris to cause trouble. She caused them to have a competition when Polytechnos was making a chair and Aedon was doing embroidery, whoever finished first should present the other with a female slave. Aedon finished first, furious Polytechnos went to Aedon's father and tricked him into giving over her sister Chelidonis on the pretence that Aedon wanted to see her. He raped Chelidonis and then dressed her as a slave, swore her to silence and gave to Aedon. Chelidonis then lamented her fate and was overheard by Aedon, they plotted revenge and killed Polytechnos' son Itys and fed him to Polytechnos. Polytechnos was then bound, smeared in honey and exposed to insects. Zeus then turned him into a pelican, Aedon into a nightingale and Chelidonis into a swallow. This story was very like that of the princesses Procne and Philomela.

Ponos- a son of Eris or of Eerebus and Nyx, he was the personification of hard labour and toil.


Hesperides- goddess or nymphs of the evening, they tended a garden at the far west at the edge of Okeanos. Daughters of Nyx, Nyx and Erebus, Atlas and Hesperis, Hesperos, Zeus and Themis, or Phorcys/Phorkys and Ceto. They guarded Hera's garden of golden apples, which a gift to her from Gaia on her wedding day to Zeus, they guarded this with a hundred-headed dragon called Ladon, who was placed there by Hera because she did not fully trust the Hesperides.
They were three or seven in number and their given names were- Aigle/Aegle, Arethusa/Arethousa, Erytheia/Erytheis/Erythea, Hesperia/Hespereia/Hespere/Hespera/ Hesperusa/Hesperethoosa/Hesperthousa/Hesperthusa, Chrysothemis/Khrysothemis, Lipara, and Asterope. They were said to be good singers.
They also guarded the winged sandals, the kibisis (knapsack), and the helmet of invisibility that Perseus needed. Athena told him to find them for these items and he went to the Graeae who gave him directions after he took their tooth and eye from them. Alternatively Perseus just received a knapsack from the Hesperides and the sandals, a sword and the helmet from Hermes, or the sandals from Hermes and the sword and helmet from Zeus. The Gorgons lived near them.
For his Eleventh Labour, Heracles had to retrieve some apples from the Hesperides' Garden. He got directions from the Old Man of the Sea (Pontus, Glaucus, Phorcys or Nereus) and then finding it asked Atlas to fetch them. He held the sky up whilst Atlas did this and then when Atlas refused to take his burden back, after obtaining the apples, Heracles tricked him into it by asking him to hold it while he adjusted his cloak. In another version Heracles slew Ladon. Athena then returned the apples once Heracles' labour was completed.
Ovid mentioned how Atlas guarded the garden and was warned that a son of Zeus would take the apples from them. When Perseus arrived and asked for sanctuary Atlas tried to throw him out and Perseus used Medusa's head to turn him to stone.
The golden apple that Eris threw into the party at Peleus and Thetis' wedding 'for the fairest' may have come from this garden, as may have the golden apples that caused Atalanta to lose the race against Melanion. Melanion received these apples from Aphrodite and threw them down to distract Atalanta so that he might win the race against her and gain her as a bride.

Keres- female daimons of violent death. They were children of just Nyx or of Nyx and Erebus. They were bloodthirsty with gnashing teeth, claws and wings. They ripped out souls on the battlefields with their claws. Their names were: Anaplekte (quick death), Akhlys (mist of death), Nosos (disease), Ker (destruction), and Stygere (hateful).
Their Roman equivalents were Letum (death) and Tenebrae (shadows).

The Fates from Xena

Moirai/Moiraie/Moerae/Fates/Parcae/Fata- daughters of Nyx, Nyx and Erebus, Chronos and Nyx, Zeus and Themis, Ananke, Chaos, or Okeanos and Gaia. They were three in number- Clotho/Klotho/Nona, the spinner, Lachesis/Lakhesis/Decima, the allotter, and Atropos/Aisa/Morta, the inevitable.
They controlled the thread of mortals' lives from birth to death, deciding how long they should live, and even Zeus was subject to their will. They appeared three nights after a child's birth to determine their fate. As such they appeared to Althaea after the birth of her son Meleager with a burning brand and determined he would live until it burned out. Althaea doused the brand and hid it until Meleager killed his uncles when they stole the pelt of the Calydonian Boar from Atalanta after Meleager had gifted it to her. Furious at her brothers' deaths, Althaea threw the brand into a fire.
Apollo got them drunk in order to get them to prolong the life of his friend Admetus, they agreed that another could take his place. His wife Alcestis agreed to take his place and was saved from Thanatos by Heracles.
They were white robed, ugly, old women who were sometimes lame. They assisted Hermes' with inventing the alphabet, killed the Gigantes Agrius/Agrios and Thoas/Thoon with bronze clubs, and in some versions poisoned the monster Typhon with fruit.

Clotho sang of things that are and carried a spindle and the book of fate. She was the youngest and chose who was born and when. She brought Pelops back from the dead after his father Tantalus killed him and tried to trick the gods into eating him.
Lachesis sang of things that were and carried a measuring rod. She was the middle of the three and decided how much time each person was allowed in life. Hesiod says she also allowed people to choose their next life.
Atropos sang of things that would be and carried a scroll, a wax tablet, a sundial, a pair of scales and shears. She was the oldest and chose how people would die.
They were linked to the Erinyes, who punished people for wrongful murders as murder went against fate, the childbirth goddess Eileythia, the Keres, and sat at the throne of Zeus or Hades. According to Plato they had their own thrones and sang with the Sirens.
Their Roman equivalents were the Parcae- Nona, Decima and Morta. Nona was also a goddess of pregnancy, Decima of childbirth and Morta of pain and death.

Nemesis from Hercules the Legendary Journeys

Nemesis/Rhamnousia/Rhamnusia- was the goddess of retribution and vengeful fate. She was a daughter of Nyx, Nyx and Erebus, Okeanos or Zeus. She was neither good nor bad, granting that which was deserved. She was associated with resentment for those who had obtained good fortune unfairly.
Her names Rhamnousia and Rhamnusia came from being worshipped at Rhamnous in Attica.
Sometimes she is said to be the mother of Helen of Troy, and also her siblings Clytemnestra, and the Dioscuri Castor and Pollux, having conceived them in the form of a goose to Zeus in the form of a swan. In other versions she lays the egg from which Helen is hatched and it is found by Leda. Alternatively, Leda is simply her mother.
The Telchines/Telkhines, four sea demons who invented metalworking are sometimes given as her children with Tartarus, at other times they are children of Pontus and Gaia, Ouranos and Gaia, Thalassa, or Poseidon.

Apate/Fraus- a child of Nyx, or Nyx and Erebus, she was the personification of deceit, guile, fraud and deception. Her counterpart was her sibling Dolus/Dolos, and her companions were her siblings the Pseudologoi. She may have been one of the evils in Pandora's jar.
Fraus was her Roman counterpart, the personification of treachery and fraud she had a woman's head, a snake's body and a scorpion's tail and helped Mercury.

Dolus/Dolos- the personification of trickery, craftiness, treachery, and guile he was a child of Nyx and Erebus, or Aether and Gaia. An apprentice of Prometheus, he accompanied his siblings the Pseudologoi, and his counterpart was his sister Apate.

Lyssa/Lytta/Ira/Furor/Rabies- a daughter of Nyx and Ouranos or of Aether and Gaia. The goddess/daimon of rage, fury, frenzy, rabies and raging madness. She was linked to the Maniae. Hera asked her to make Heracles insane and though she obeyed it was with reluctance. She was also sent by Dionysus to drive the Minyades mad, daughters of Minyas who neglected the worship of Dionysus and were driven mad as a consequence. She was also linked to the hunter Actaeon/Aktaion, specifically his maddened dogs who tore him apart after he was turned into a stag by Artemis.
Her Roman name was Ira, Furor or Rabies, sometimes she was seen as multiple deities- Irae/Furores.

Maniae/Maniai- daughters of Nyx though no source states this. The personification of madness, insanity and crazed frenzy. They worked with Lyssa and the Erinyes. They are also called nursemaids of Eros but whether in jest, irony or simply truth as Eros can be cruel, is unknown.

Eleos- a child of Nyx and Erebus, either the god or goddess of mercy, pity and compassion. The goddess Anaideia (ruthlessness, shamelessness) was their opposite. Heracles' children sought refuge at his altar in Athens from Eurystheus who was Heracles' rival and set his Twelve Labours, he sought to kill them after their father Heracles died. They survived and Eurystheus and his sons were killed.
Adrastos/Adrastus/Adrestus, a king of Argos during The Seven Against Thebes, went to the same altar after he lost and fled to Athens to beseech Theseus for aid.

Sophrosyne- daughter of Erebus and Nyx, and the goddess of moderation, temperance, self-control and restraint. She may have been one of the good things that escaped Pandora's jar. Her Roman equivalents were Continentia and Sobrietas.

Philotes- a daughter of just Nyx or Nyx and Erebus, she was the goddess of friendship, sexual intercourse and affection. The Neikea (quarrels, feuds) opposed her.

Geras/Senectus- a son of just Nyx or Nyx and Erebus and the personification of old age. He was viewed as a shrivelled, old man. His opposite was the goddess of youth, Heracles' last wife- Hebe, daughter of Zeus and Hera. He was shown on vases with Heracles though the story behind it is unknown. His Roman equivalent was Senectus.

Epiphron- a son of Erebus and Nyx and the personification of prudence, thoughtfulness, carefulness, shrewdness and sagacity.

Hybris/Petulantia- a daughter of Nyx and Erebus, or of Dyssebia (impiety) she was the goddess of impiety, wantonness, recklessness, pride, arrogance and outrageous behaviour. She was the mother of Corus/Koros the personification of insolence and distain, and of Dyssebia sometimes. Her Roman equivalent was Petulantia.

Oizys/ Miseria- a daughter of Nyx or Nyx and Erebus, she was the goddess of misery, woe, suffering and distress. Her twin was Momos. Her Roman name was Miseria.

Creation

There are several versions of the creation myth in Greek mythology, the first primordial beings were known as the Protogenoi, they are- Chaos, Phanes, Phusis, Erebos, Aether, Thalassa, Hemera, Nyx, Ananke, Khronos, Eros, Gaia, the Ourea, the Nesoi, Ouranos, Tethys, Okeanos, Hydrus, Pontos and Tartarus.

Chaos, Phanes, Ananke, Khronos, Eros, Nyx and Okeanos have all been considered as the first beings. Hesiod says that Chaos came first and from her came Gaia, Erebus, Nyx, Eros and Tartarus. Then from Nyx and Erebus came Aether and Hemera,and from Gaia came Ouranos and with him they formed the first twelve Titans.

The Orphica suggests Ananke came first, fully formed with her consort Khronos/Chronos (not to be confused with Cronus), and together they brought about the universe from an egg, and it is from this egg that Phanes hatched. Phanes owes his origins to Orphic tradition, a type of cult/religion in the ancient world, here Phanes is listed as the god of procreation and new life and the first ruler of the universe, he is the father of Nyx and passes his reign onto her via his sceptre. Nyx in turn passes it to Ouranos, it is then seized by Chronus and then Zeus.

The Orphic Theogonies also give Thesis as the goddess of creation and mention Phusis a goddess of nature alongside her. It also says that Hydrus/Hydros the primordial being of water emerged first with Thesis, and mud which turned into Gaia. Gaia and Hydrus became parents to Khronos and Ananke, or Phanes.

Nyx is sometimes listed as the first being rather than Chaos, Phanes and Eros are both considered her sons, although Phanes is sometimes given as her father. Hesiod and Aristophanes both list her as the child of Chaos. It is Orphic fragments who says she is Phanes' daughter.

Parmenides says Eros came first whilst Hesiod says he came after Chaos and Aristophanes lists him as a child of Nyx. Originally a primordial god of love he was gradually turned into a companion and child of Aphrodite having more in common with his more known Roman form Cupid.


So we have a rough summary of several creation theories. Now I will go into more depth about who or what these beings were thought to be.

Chaos/Khaos was considered female in aspect, an abyss, the gaping nothing and also the first being in the universe from which everything else came. Personality wise there is not much to go on, Chaos was a thing and a being, a personification of nothingness, also known as the void or air. Ovid described Chaos as "a rude and undeveloped mass".
She was either the first being or a child of Khronos and Ananke, she was parent to Erebus and Nyx, and possibly Aether, Hemera and Eros, and occasionally the Moirae. Sometimes a formless, motionless mass or sometimes all the elements together. Chaos was also viewed as the gap between heaven and earth. Chaos was also seen as the womb in which the cosmic egg was laid by the wind and then hatched into Eros.

Phanes/Protogonos/Protogonus/Erikepaios/Ericapaeus- was a child of Khronos and Ananke, he hatched from the silver Cosmic World-Egg/ Orphic Egg, a being both male and female with gold wings and a serpent coiled around him. He was also known as Protogonos/Protogonus or Phanes-Protogonos, Protogonos meaning First-born. He is described as the god of reproduction, new life, light (Phanes meaning "I bring to light") and goodness, and the first ruler of the universe and is sometimes given as a parent or consort of Nyx. He was said to be king of the universe before gifting his sceptre and title to Nyx.

He could be linked to Eros and Mithras, also said to have hatched from the cosmic egg or to have come after Chaos and Gaia. Sometimes he was a child of Hydrus and Gaia. Nonnus says Hermes disguised himself as Phanes to save Dionysus/Zagreus from Hera. Respecting Phanes, Hera bowed before him.
He was also called Ericapaeus or Metis, and said to have been disguised as Metis when Zeus mated and swallowed her.

He was depicted as a hermaphrodite wearing a helmet with golden wings and a serpent wrapped around him.

Phusis/Physis- She is considered a primordial goddess of nature associated with Thesis.

Erebos/Erebus- is the primordial god of darkness, a son of Chaos and husband to his sister Nyx. With whom he had many offspring- Aether, Cer, Eros, Hemera, Charon, the Hesperides, Hypnos, the Moirae, Momus, Moros, Nemesis, Oneiroi, Phlegethon, Styx, and Thanatos. (Although Nyx is sometimes said to have produced many of her offspring without a consort). There is very little mentioned about Erebus.

Nyx used his darkness to darken the skies.

Hyginus sometimes states he was father to Geras, the god of old age.

He was associated with the Underworld, said to be split into two- Erebus, where the dead went first when they died, and Tartarus, where the Titans were imprisoned. Later Erebus was interchangeable with Tartarus.

Nyx- is the primordial goddess of the night, a daughter of Chaos, sometimes Phanes, she was wife to her brother Erebus. She is the mother of Aether, Charon, Epiphron, Hemera, Hypnos, Moros, Nemesis, Styx, Thanatos, Achlys, Apate, Eris, Erinyes, Geras, Hesperides, Keres, Momus, Oizys, Oneiroi, Phanes, Philotes, Moirae, and Lyssa. Some sources says many of her children came about through parthenogenesis, whilst others list all or most of them as children with her consort Erebus. Zeus and Themis have also been listed as the parents of the Moirae opposed to Nyx, and Lyssa is said to have been the child of Nyx and Ouranos.

Hesiod states that she lived in the Underworld with her children Hypnos, Thanatos and Hemera, and presumably her consort Erebus.

When Zeus pursued Hypnos in a rage after Hypnos put him to sleep at Hera's behest, Hypnos fled to Nyx and hid behind her. Fearing the ancient goddess, Zeus abandoned his pursuit.

Orpheus portrayed her as an oracle dwelling in a cave with Cronus who was chained and drunk on honey. Outside the cave the nymph Adrasteia (possibly one of Zeus' nurses) played cymbals and drums in rhythm with Nyx's prophesising.

Medea and Circe invoked her when casting spells.

Nyx is described as beautiful and blue-black and usually wearing a cloak of darkness or having black wings.

Her Roman counterpart was Nox.


Aether/Aither- is the god of air/space/heaven who is a son of Nyx and Erebus. (See Children of Nyx.)

Hemera-is the goddess of the day, daughter to Nyx and Erebus and consort to her brother Aether. Hesiod says she and Nyx dwelled in a house in the Underworld, passing each other as they left and returned. (See Children of Nyx.)

Thalassa- is a sea goddess, the daughter of Aether and his sister Hemera, she is the consort of Pontus, and mother of Telchines and Halia, a goddess who gave Poseidon six sons and a daughter and was raped by her sons after Aphrodite drove them mad. As there were many sea deities, there is little about Thalassa as others took more importance.

She was clothed in seaweed and had crab claws for horns.

Pontus- is a sea god who is given as a son of Gaia with whom he fathered Nereus, Thaumas, Phorcys, Ceto and Eurybia. With Thalassa he sired the Telchines and Halia. He was effectively replaced by Poseidon as the gods took over the Titans and even the Protogenoi.

Gaia from God of War

Gaia/Gaea/Ge- is an earth and mother goddess. She is a child of Chaos who created her own consort Ouranos. She was the first to emerge from Chaos, followed by Tartarus, Eros, Erebus and Nyx. She then created Ouranos (sky), Ourea (mountains), and Pontus (sea). She had many offspring including the Titans, the Olympians, the Cyclopes, the Hekatonkhires (hundred-handed), the sea gods and the Gigantes amongst others.

With Ouranos she had the Twelve Titans- Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Oceanus, Cronus, Rhea, Phoebe, Tethys, Theia, Themis and Mnemosyne; the Hekatonkhires- Briareus, Cottus and Gyes; and the Cyclopes- Arges, Brontes and Steropes; and Aetna, a mountain nymph who acted as judge when Demeter and Hephaestus quarrelled over Sicily, and with Zeus or Hephaestus was mother to the Palici.

When Ouranos hid their monstrous children away she urged her children to overthrow him, only the youngest Cronus was brave enough to do so and she gave him an adamantine sickle to do so. Cronus cut his father's testicles when he came to lie with Gaia and from the union of his blood and Gaia came forth the Meliae (ash nymphs), the Erinyes- Alecto, Megaera and Tisiphone, and the Gigantes- Eurymedon, Porphyrion, Alcyoneus, Agrios, Clytius, Enceladus, Ephialtes, Otus, Eurytus, Gration, Hippolytus, Leon, Mimas, Pallas, Pelorus, Polybotes, Theodamus and Thoon.

When Cronus imprisoned the Cyclopes, Hekatonkhires and Gigantes back within her she grew angry and helped Zeus to overthrow him. It was she and Ouranos (or just she) who prophesied that Cronus would be overthrown by his child as he had overthrown his father. Cronus ate his children to prevent this but his wife grew tired of watching her children be devoured and went to Gaia (or Gaia and Ouranos) for advice, they persuaded her to trick Cronus by giving him a rock wrapped in swaddling clothes to swallow instead of Zeus. In some accounts Gaia raised Zeus.

In anger at Zeus for imprisoning her Titan children in Tartarus after the Titanomachy she persuaded the Gigantes to rise up against him and the gods. They fought in Gigantomachy and the Gigantes were defeated by the gods thanks to the aid of Heracles when a prophecy said the aid of a mortal was required to defeat them.

With Tartarus she had Typhon/Typhoeus, the father of all monsters, her last son and sometimes his consort Echidna is given as her daughter. Campe/Kampe is thought to be another sibling, she is a dragon with a woman's head and torso and a scorpion's tail, she guarded the Cyclopes and Hekatonkhires for Cronus and was killed by Zeus. Gaia persuaded Typhon to attack Zeus, in vegeance for the Titans and the Gigantes. Typhon was manlike with serpents for legs and fingers, he was tall enough to reach the stars, had wings and attacked with fire and storm winds. Typhon tore out Zeus' sinews and hid them but Hermes recovered them. In some accounts the half-serpent half-female monster Delphyne guarded them and was slain by Apollo. Zeus then defeated Typhon and sealed him under Mt. Etna.

With the sea god Pontus, Gaia had the sea goddess Ceto who was Phorcys' consort, Phorcys/Phorkys god of dangers in the deep sea, Eurybia a sea goddess, the Old Man of the Sea Nereus who fathered the Nereids with Doris, and Thaumas, a sea god who fathered the Harpies and Iris with the Oceanid Electra.

With Poseidon she had Antaeus a half-giant who wrestled travellers and built a temple with their skulls. He had the power to heal so long as he remained on the ground, Heracles killed him with a bearhug. A goddess Tinjis/Tingis/Tinga was said to be his wife and Heracles consorted with her after he murdered Antaeus, and they had a son, Sufax. With Poseidon Gaia also had a daughter, Charybdis a beautiful nymph cursed into the form of a whirlpool monster with flippers and teeth, Zeus cursed because she won too much land for her father with the tides.

With Oceanus she had Creusa, mother to Hypseus, King of the Lapiths, and Triptolemus, a man linked to Demeter. Triptolemus was either a priest of Demeter or in fact another name for Demophon, a son of King Celeus that Demeter tried to make immortal in thanks for Celeus' hospitality, but she was stopped by Celeus' wife Metanira.

With Zeus she had a son, King Manes of Maeonia.

With Aether she had Aergia, the goddess of sloth who guarded Hypnos' court. Sometimes Ouranos was also a son of Aether and Gaia.

She may have been mother to Pheme, the personification of fame.

Argus Panoptes, the many eyed guardian of Io that Hermes killed may have been a son of Gaia, possibly with Arestor.

Hyllus/Hyllos, Anax, Asterios, Damasen who killed a drakon in Lydia, Alpos who was killed by Dionysus, Syceus/Sykeus who was turned into a fig tree by Gaia, and Azeus/Azeios who fought during the Titanomachy, were giant sons, as were the Gegeness who had six arms and attacked the Argonauts.

When Hephaestus tried to rape Athena, she ran from him but his semen struck her leg. Athena wiped it off and discarded it onto Gaia, impregnating her with Erichthonius/Erichthonios. Gaia gave the infant to Athena who in turn put him in a box and gave him to the princesses of Athens, Herse, Pandrosus and Aglaurus, to mind. Curiosity overrode Aglaurus and Herse and they opened the box, discovering either a half-infant half-serpent or an infant with a serpent encoiled about him, they went mad and killed themselves. He grew up to become king of Athens and with the naiad Praxithea he had a son, Pandion.

After the great deluge, survivors Deucalion and Pyrrha wanted to repopulate the earth, they consulted an oracle of Themis who instructed them to throne the bones of their mother over their shoulder, this meant rocks. So from the rocks that Deucalion threw came men and from the rocks Pyrrha threw came women, all born of Gaia.

She may have produced a scorpion to kill Orion when he boasted that he would kill everything on earth, in other accounts Apollo or Artemis killed him.

When Zeus and Hera married she gave Hera a garden of golden apple trees, this became the Garden of the Hesperides, guarded by the Hesperides, Ladon and to an extent, Atlas.

Hermes took Apollo and Cyrene's son Aristaeus/Aristaios to Gaia who raised him and made him immortal, he was the founder of bee-keeping.

Her Roman counterpart was Terra/Tellus/Terra Mater. Her partner was Caelus/Coleus, a sky god, Tellumo or Tellurus, or Jupiter and she was linked to Ceres.

Ouranos/Uranus- is the god of the sky, Gaia's son and consort, he fathered many children with her. When he imprisoned their monstrous children in Tatartus Gaia gave their son Cronus a sickle to castrate him with when he came to mate with Gaia. It is said that Aphrodite formed from these genitals in the sea. Uranus is actually a Greek name rather than Roman. He was the son of Gaia, Aether and Gaia, Aether and Hemera, or Nyx. He fathered the Titans, the Cyclopes, and the Hecatoncheires with Gaia, and when he was castrated by Cronus the Meliae (ash nymphs), the Gigantes, Erinyes, and Aphrodite, and sometimes the Telchines, sprang from his blood.

He loathed his children and pushed them back into Gaia, into Tartarus, which caused her so much pain and grief that she persuaded her youngest, Cronus, to castrate Ouranos with an adamantine sickle. After his castration he could no longer mate with Gaia so he, the sky, was fixed in place.
With Gaia he prophesised that Cronus would be overthrown by his child as Ouranos was. Cronus tried to prevent this by swallowing his children by failed when Rhea, advised by Ouranos and Gaia, hid Zeus and fed Cronus a stone instead. Zeus then overthrew Cronus and saved his siblings.

As the sky he was depicted as a dome of brass or bronze by the Greeks.

His Roman counterpart is Caelus/Coelus. He was linked to the Roman god of nocturnal thunder, Summanus. Cicero and Hyginus called him a son of Aether (light) and Dies (day/daylight), and with Dies he was a parent of Mercury. He was also father to Janus, Saturn and Ops/Opis, with Trivia or Terra/Tellus. With the title Nocturnus he was god of the night sky and Sol's opposite.

Ananke/Anangke/Anance/Anagke - is the goddess of destiny, inevitability and necessity and the consort of Khronos. Sometimes given as the mother of the Moirae for obvious reasons, she was pictured as either a woman with a spindle, or as a woman with the lower body of a serpent like a naga or lamia who was coiled with her half serpentine consort Khronos with the cosmic egg between them.
She seems to have been an all powerful deity beyond the Titans and gods with her consort who gradually faded from popularity over time. She was said to have appeared fully formed at the beginning of time and from the cosmic egg the universe came to be. She and her consort kept the heavens and time going. Sometimes she is said to be a daughter of Hydrus/Hydros and Gaea/Gaia. With Khronos her offspring included Chaos, Aether, Phanes and Erebos/Erebus, and by herself she was sometimes mother to the Moirae. In one picture she was winged and holding a torch.

Her Roman counterpart was Necessitas.

Khronos or Chronos/Chronus- was Ananke's consort and the god of time, he was pictured with the head of a man, a bull and a lion and a serpent's body, coiled up with Ananke or as a bearded man. He was confused and even merged with the titan Cronus/Kronos. With Ananke he hatched the cosmic egg, out of which Eros or Phanes sprung, and he encircled the heavens with her driving heaven and time forward. He was also called Aeon/Aion (eternity) and was depicted on Gaia holding the zodiac wheel. Alternatively, Aion was a seperate deity of unbounded time whilst Chronos was restricted to set time i.e past, present future, he was linked to eternity. He either appeared fully formed or his parents were Hydrus and Gaia. With Ananke he fathered Phanes, Eros, Chaos and Aether, and sometimes with Nyx he fathered Hemera and Moirae.

Aion was sometimes depicted as an old man and was linked to the Horae. To the Romans he was the guarantor of Roman rule. His Roman counterpart was the female goddess of eternity, Aeternitas. She was depicted holding a cornucopia, leaning on a sceptre with one foot on a globe and thus was linked to eternity, prosperity and domination. The phoenix was her symbol and she was sometimes viewed as a daughter of Jupiter.

The Ourea were children of Gaia, they were ten deities of the mountains.

The Nesoi were the goddesses of islands.

Tethys- is a goddess of fresh water and a sea goddess, the daughter of Gaia and Ouranos and sister/consort to Okeanos. With Okeanos she was parent to the Okeanids, the Potamoi (rivers) and the Nephelai (clouds).

She is given as Hera's nurse during the war against the Titans. In honour of Hera she refused to let the constellation Ursa Minor set in Okeanos as this was the constellation of Callisto/Kallisto, a nymph Zeus seduced in the form of Artemis and impregnated.

Okeanos/Oceanus- is a sea god, the son of Gaia and Ouranos and brother/consort to Tethys. He was seen as the giant river that encircled the world. With Tethys he was parent to the Oceanids, the Nephelai, and the Potamoi.

He chose not to rebel against Ouranos or to fight in the Titanomachy.

When Heracles travelled over the ocean in Helios' golden bowl, he threatened Okeanos when the bowl was tossed about in the waves, amused, Okeanos left him alone.

He was shown with a beard, sometimes horns and either a serpent or fish lower half.

Tartarus/Tartaros- is given as a child of Chaos or Gaia and Aether, the god of the pit of Tartarus, a hellish place where the damned went. With Gaia he is given as a parent of Echidna and Typhon, presumably Kampe and sometimes the Gigantes, though usually they came from Ouranos' blood mixing with Gaia. He is given as parent to the Telchines with Nemesis, though they are also considered children of Pontus and Gaia, Thalassa, Poseidon or the blood of Ouranos and Gaia. Nine in number they had flippers and dog heads, inhabited Rhodes and were skilled metalworkers. In some early myths Rhea gave them the infant Poseidon to guard. They started used their skills for malvolent deeds and were killed by the gods for this.