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Chaos (sh)




In Greek cosmology, either the primeval emptiness before things came into being or the abyss of Tartarus, the underworld.

In Hesiod's Theogony, there was first Chaos, then Gaea and Eros. The offspring of Chaos were Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night). Ovid gave Chaos its modern meaning: the original formless and disordered mass from which the ordered universe is created. The early church fathers applied this interpretation to the creation story in Genesis.