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| Goanna Headland meets the Sea at Evans Head (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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| Western Kurrajong Tree used for Aboriginal Marriages at Bundjalung National Park NSW (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
As we look on the family tree of the Gods we notice a group of deities who were born out of Chaos, in the beginning of our universe. But who are these deities and what do they represent?
The Protogenoi were the first entities or beings that came into existence whose forms made up the very fabric of our universe and they were immortal. The singular name is Prôtogenos and in plural Prôtogenoi and both mean First Born of Primeval.
The Prôtogenoi are group of Gods from which all the other Gods are descend. Although it is believed that they were the first Gods who came out of the Void or Chaos, some sources mentioned a pair of deities who were the parents of these Prôtogenoi.
These deites represent various elements of nature like Water (Pontos), Earth (Gaia), Heaven (Ouranos), etc… There even were Prôtogenos of the Seas (Pontos), Islands (Nesoi), Air (Chaos), Mists of Light (Aither), Day (Hemera), Mists of Darkness (Erebos), Procreation (Himeros- Eros), Mountains (Ouranoi), Sea-surface (Thalassa), Ocean (Okeanos), the great stormy Hellpit (Tartaros which was seen as both a deity and the personification), Creation (Thesis) and Fresh Water (Thetis). These are the names who made up the Prôtogenoi.
