Also called Khaos, The Chasm.
Their story
In Hesiod, first of all Chaos came to be, and after it broad-breasted Gaia, Tartarus and Eros. From Chaos came Erebus and Night. In Aristophanes's Birds, a comic creation story has Night lay an egg in the lap of Erebus, from which Eros hatched.
Best times to give to them
- At the very start of a project
- In meditation on beginnings
What they like being given
- A blank page
- Silence
How to honour them
- Sit with emptiness before creating, trusting that something will come.
- Remember that chaos first meant a gap or opening, not disorder.
How they can help you
- Beginnings
- Tolerating uncertainty
Symbols
- empty space
- yawning gap
Chaos in Greek means a yawning gap; the sense of disorder is later.
Sources
- Hesiod, Theogony 116-123
- Aristophanes, Birds 693-702