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Chaos (Ancient Greek: χάος khaos meaning "gaping") refers to the formless or void state preceding the creation of the universe or cosmos in the Greek creation myths. In Greek cosmology, Khaos was a primordial state of matter from which the cosmos and the other gods emerged. For Hesiod and the early Greek Olympian myth (8th century BCE), Chaos was the "vast and dark" void from which Nyx emerged. Chaos was also personified as a primal deity in Greek mythology, as the first of the Protogenoi and the god of the air.

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  • Chaos (Ancient Greek: χάος khaos meaning "gaping") refers to the formless or void state preceding the creation of the universe or cosmos in the Greek creation myths. In Greek cosmology, Khaos was a primordial state of matter from which the cosmos and the other gods emerged. For Hesiod and the early Greek Olympian myth (8th century BCE), Chaos was the "vast and dark" void from which Nyx emerged. Chaos was also personified as a primal deity in Greek mythology, as the first of the Protogenoi and the god of the air.
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  • Chaos (Ancient Greek: χάος khaos meaning "gaping") refers to the formless or void state preceding the creation of the universe or cosmos in the Greek creation myths. In Greek cosmology, Khaos was a primordial state of matter from which the cosmos and the other gods emerged. For Hesiod and the early Greek Olympian myth (8th century BCE), Chaos was the "vast and dark" void from which Nyx emerged. Chaos was also personified as a primal deity in Greek mythology, as the first of the Protogenoi and the god of the air. Primal Chaos was sometimes said to be the true foundation of reality, particularly by philosophers such as Heraclitus. It was also probably what Aristotle had in mind when he developed the concept of Prima Materia in his attempt to combine Platonism with Presocraticism and Naturalism. Ovid (1st century BCE), in his Metamorphoses, described Chaos as "a rude and undeveloped mass, that nothing made except a ponderous weight; and all discordant elements confused, were there congested in a shapeless heap." Fifth-century Orphic cosmogony had a "Womb of Darkness" in which the Wind lay a Cosmic Egg whence Eros was hatched, who set the universe in motion. The same term has also been extended to parallel concepts in the religions of the Ancient Near East. The motif of chaoskampf (German for "struggle against chaos") is ubiquitous in these myths, depicting a battle of a culture hero deity with a chaos monster, often in the shape of a serpent or dragon.
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