Creation Myth part 2: The Greeks
Part 2 of my #creationmyth series! This time focusing on the story as told by the ancient Greeks. It's a story quite unfamiliar to myself and I bet to many others as well which is exactly why I am doing this series. - In the beginning there was only chaos, a empty darkness. In this darkness the only thing that existed was Nyx . A bird with black wings born out of this chaos together with her brother Erebus . Erebus - to which the underworld belonged - impregnated his sister Nyx after which she laid an golden egg. For ages she sat upon that egg with nothing happening. Then finally life began to stir in the egg and out of the egg were born Aether , the bright upper air and Hemera , the day. Afterward, feared by everyone but Erebus Nyx fashioned herself, by herself a family of haunting forces with among those the hateful Moros (Fate) , the black Ker (Doom) , Thanatos (Death) , Hypnos (Sleep) , Oneiroi (Dreams) , Geras (Old Age) , Oizus (Pain) , Nemesis (Revenge) , Eris (Strife) , ...