#protogenoi

[apiswitchcraft]

altars for titans and protogenoi

This post more than any of the others is going to be mostly upg or spg. Hardly anyone in antiquity spent a lot of effort worshipping most of these deities, especially the protogenoi, so resources are limited. If you have suggestions or personal addendums, feel free to leave them in the comments. I made a lot of decisions based on what the herbs/crystals are usually associated with: for example, black tourmaline is associated with Nyx (the night) therefore Chaos (the embodiment of the primordial soup and basically the universe) has black tourmaline too.

Also, all the deities on this list can be honored with libation of wine, milk, honey, and oil; offerings of meat or desserts; and burning frankincense/myrrh.

Disclaimer: this is not all of the protogenoi or titans that exist, these are just the most recognizable ones that have the most lore attached. I used theoi.com to research all of these deities.

CHAOS: the first to emerge at creation, the protogenos of the space between heaven and earth, and the air

Colors: black, grey, purple for the concept of chaos Offerings: feathers, burning incense, cinnamon, anise, cardamom, clove, black pepper, representations of the four elements Crystals: obsidian, tourmaline, labradorite, lava rock, angelite, amethyst Animals: birds

PHANES/EROS (the elder): protogenos of procreation

Colors: red, pink for love/procreation. blue, green for nature and creation Offerings: heart shaped objects, eucalyptus, flowers, egg shells Crystals: rose quartz, rhodonite, rhodochrosite, malachite, azurite, garnet, desert rose selenite Animals: birds

NYX: protogenos of the night

Colors: black, dark blue, purple for association with the night, anything galaxy patterned Offerings: blackberries, blueberries, plum, dew (morning is fine but after sunset is best), dark feathers, dark chocolate, night-blooming flowers (like moonflower or wisteria), black tea/coffee, mugwort Crystals: obsidian, black tourmaline, labradorite, moonstone (especially black moonstone), selenite, lapis lazuli, amethyst, smokey quartz Animals: owl

also, she is associated with symbols of keys and veils/cloaks

EREBOS: protogenos of darkness

Colors: black for darkness Offerings: dark chocolate, black pepper, black salt, charcoal, asphodel Crystals: black tourmaline, obsidian, smokey quartz, lapis lazuli, azurite, red jasper Animals: moths

AETHER: protogenos of light and the heavens

Colors: yellow, orange, white for sunlight. blue for the sky Offerings: sunflowers, bee pollen, morning dew, fruit, feathers Crystals: honey/blue calcite, yellow/bumblebee jasper, angelite, celestite, milky quartz

HEMERA: protogenos of the day

Colors: blue for the sky, white for the heavens Offerings: chamomile, sage, lavender, basil Crystals: angelite, blue calcite, selenite, celestite, milky quartz, sapphire

GAEA: protogenos of the earth

Colors: blue, green, brown for the earth Offerings: flowers, wood, dirt, anything from nature, really. doing good deeds for the environment Crystals: unakite, jaspers (various), agates (various), lava rock, tiger's eye, bumblebee jasper, jade, nephrite, serpentine, amber Animals: serpents, bull, pig, bees

OURANOS: protogenos of the sky

Colors: blue, white, grey for the sky Offerings: rosemary, sage, mint, leaving your windows/curtains open Crystals: angelite, celestite, selenite, blue calcite, moonstone, sunstone, star jasper, blue lace agate Animals: birds

OCEANUS: protogenos of the ocean

Colors: blue and white for the ocean Offerings: shells, gull feathers, fish scales/bones, sea water, pearls, sand from the ocean Crystals: larimar, aquamarine, turquoise, lapis lazuli, azurite Animals: gulls, pelicans, fish

TETHYS: protogenos of fresh water

Colors: blue and green for fresh water Offerings: lake/pond/river water, fish scales/bones, cattails, sand from a fresh water beach Crystals: larimar, aquamarine, fluorite, amazonite, petoskey stone Animals: fresh water fish, dragonflies

THEMIS: protogenos of divine law and order

Colors: white, silver, gold for law Offerings: thyme, rosemary, anything resembling scales Crystals: pyrite, bloodstone, smokey quartz, obsidian, alexandrite, lapis lazuli Animals: owls

TARTARUS: protogenos of the depths

Colors: red and black for the underworld Offerings: sulfur, saltpeter, black salt, charcoal, deadly nightshade Crystals: jaspers (various), obsidian, black tourmaline, bloodstone, garnet/ruby, pyrite (contains a lot of sulfur) Animals: bats, black dogs

KRONOS: titan of time, harvest, and abundance

Colors: yellow, gold for his scythe. white, grey for the concept of time. green, brown for fertility Offerings: grain, bread, clocks/watches, vervain, poppy, nightshade, clove, allspice Crystals: jaspers (various), agates (various), labradorite, quartz (various), amethyst, honey calcite, serpentine, amber Animals: snakes

RHEA: titaness of motherhood, fertility, and generations (like of family)

Colors: red, pink for motherhood. green, brown for fertility Offerings: menstrual blood, milk, red clover, raspberry, allspice, clove, cinnamon Crystals: rose quartz, rhodonite, rhodochrosite, amethyst, pink opal, jade, nephrite, tiger's eye, cat's eye, amber Animals: lion

PHOEBE: titaness of bright intellect and prophecy

Colors: blue, white, and grey for intellect. purple for prophecy Offerings: sage, bay leaves, lavender, tests/quizzes/homework, yarrow Crystals: lapis lazuli, amethyst, labradorite, howlite, celestite, moonstone, selenite, celestite

LETO: titaness of motherhood, modesty, and womanly demure, protector of children

Colors: pink, red for motherhood. white for modesty Offerings: raspberry, allspice, clove, cinnamon, lavender, flowers, Crystals: moonstone, sunstone, selenite, rose quartz, carnelian, lepidolite, howlite Animals: wolf, rooster

also, she is associated with veiling

ASTERIA: titaness of falling stars, night time divination, and astrology

Colors: blue, black for the night. white/galaxy pattern for stars. purple for magic Offerings: star charts, feathers (especially quail), lavender Crystals: celestite, selenite, star jasper, amethyst, azurite, obsidian, black tourmaline, labradorite, jade Animals: quail

HELIOS: titan of the sun

Colors: yellow, orange, white for the sun Offerings: anything that refracts sunlight, sunflower, st john's wort, sage, cow pelt, chicken feathers Crystals: sunstone, yellow jasper, honey calcite, carnelian, citrine, milky quartz, celestite, angelite, amber Animals: cattle, sheep, white horses, rooster

SELENE: titaness of the moon

Colors: white, grey for the moon Offerings: yarrow, moon shaped objects/food, lavender, night-blooming flowers (like morning glories), nighttime dew Crystals: selenite, celestite, angelite, moonstone, labradorite, smokey quartz, howlite Animals: horses, oxen, mules

EOS: titaness of dawn

Colors: blue for the sky. white, yellow, orange, pink for colors of dawn Offerings: morning dew, morning glories, lavender, yarrow, sage Crystals: rose quartz, citrine, honey calcite, yellow jasper, milky quartz, moonstone, sunstone, selenite, celestite Animals: horses, cicadas

MNEMOSYNE: titaness of memory

Colors: red, yellow for memory Offerings: forget-me-nots, myrtle, rosemary, jasmine, Crystals: jade, amber, turquoise, fluorite, red/yellow jasper Animals: animals with good memory, like an elephant or raven

PROMETHEUS: titan of forethought, creator of mankind

Colors: red, orange for the fire of creation Offerings: fennel, burning things, charcoal Crystals: bloodstone, carnelian, citrine, amber, jaspers (various) Animals: eagle

divider by @vibeswithrenai

[chthonioi]

Epithets of Nyx

Khaosgenetor — chaos-born.

Nyktelios — night revealing, night-bringing.

Kelainḗ — black.

Mélaina — black one.

Erebennḗ — dark one.

Hierá — holy.

Ambrosíē — ambrosial, divine.

Oloḗ — ruinous.

Euphrone — kindly, cheerful.

[edensvessel]

I fricking love Kronos did you know that

[thewhisperofzagreus]

There is no harsher mistress than Ananke (Necessity), with whom not even gods dare fight.

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3. 430 ff + Anankei

[hermeneutas]

Sobre os Primordiais - Ponto e Tálassa, os Mares.

Dando continuidade a nossa série de posts sobre os protogenoi, os Deuses Primordiais, desta vez focando em duas deidades interessantíssimas que encarnam aspectos poderosos da existência: Tálassa e Ponto, os Mares.

Descritos pelo ilustre Hesíodo como as Potências mais antigas dos oceanos, Ponto e Tálassa são os genitores de todas as criaturas do mar, principalmente os peixes. Juntos eles personificam o próprio elemento líquido e a vastidão oceânica, misturados eternamente. Ambos Deuses são descritos como pais dos daimones chamados de telquines, descritos como divindades com cabeça de cão e corpo de foca responsáveis pela invenção da metalurgia e pela forja da temível foice de Cronos, o Rei dos Titãs. Zeus, nas narrativas escoliásticas e do romano Ovídio, os teria punido por seu uso maligno de mágica e jogado-os ao Tártaro.

Nos mosaicos greco-romanos Tálassa é representada como uma mulher maternal vestida em algas, com chifres que imitam as pinças de um crustáceo e portando um remo na mão, já Ponto é representado como o rosto de um homem maduro e barbado emergindo da água, com pinças de crustáceo como chifres e cabelos nas cores do mar.

Ponto em si �� descrito como o pai, junto a Gaia, a Mãe-Terra, de diversos Deuses do mar: Nereu, o Velho dos Mares, oráculo marítimo e Deus dos peixes; Taumante, Deus das maravilhas do mar; Fórcis e Ceto, Deuses dos horrores marítimos, monstros das profundezas e baleias e Euríbia, Deusa do poder de dominar os mares.

Os nomes deles em si são variações da palavra mar em grego antigo. De modo interessante, Tálassa é descrita pelos órficos em seu hino como mãe de Afrodite, deidade nascida da união das partes retalhadas da genitália de Urano, o Deus-Céu, atiradas ao mar.

E embora ao menos um destes protogenoi contem com um hino, os relatos de culto de ambos são escassos nas fontes mais confiáveis, aparecendo mais em representações poéticas como a antiquíssima Teogonia ou o tardio Dionisíacas, do escrito grego Nono. Suas funções e aspecto também são curiosamente replicadas pelos titãs Oceano e Tétis, descritos como pais dos rios da terra, dos seres marítimos e de diversas divindades, as oceânides.

Mesmo assim, há fragmentos de preces e descrições de Pausânias que apontam para a presença de Tálassa em templos dedicados a Poseidon. Nos escritos da Haliêutica, um guia de cinco livros sobre a arte da pesca em escrita símile ao estilo de Homero, o escritor greco-romano Opiano descreve uma prece para os Deuses do mar (Daimones Thalassoi), incluindo Tálassa entre eles.

Por fim, findamos mais um post sobre os Deuses Primordiais que compõem nosso mundo e espiritualidade politeísta. Paz a vós!

Hino Órfico a Tálassa, tradução de Rafael Brunhara.

"A ninfa do Oceano eu chamo, Tétis de olhos glaucos, soberana de escuro véu, corredora ondeante, com brisas de doce sopro pulsando pela terra, quebrando em praias e abrolhos as suas vastas ondas, na calmaria de moventes tenros turbilhões, (5) exultante de navios, umente nutriz de feras, mãe da Cípris, sim; e mãe das Nuvens trevosas, e das fontes florescentes em que fluem as Ninfas; Ouve-me, Deusa multi-insigne; prouvera ajudes, benfazeja, enviando bons ventos aos navios de reto curso, ó venturosa.  (10)"

Trecho da Haliêutica de Opiano, tradução livre.

"Sê misericordioso comigo, tu que és rei no trato do mar [Poseidon], filho governante de Cronos (Cronos), Cinturão da terra, e sê misericordiosa tu mesma, ó Thalassa (Mar), e vós, deuses que no mar ressoante tendes a vossa morada (Daimones Thalassai); e concede-me contar sobre os teus rebanhos e tribos criadas no mar."

[yourgodlyparent]

Aither: Primordial God of the Upper Air and Light

Aither kids ⛅️Daydreamers ⛅️Take everything at face value ⛅️Drive windows down, volume cranked high ⛅️Magnanimous

No Cabin Assigned Yet

[abyssalwyrm0]

I would love to see more works in which Khronos and Kronos are separate characters, but Kronos still have temporal manipulation.

Like, it's asking so much that there's a Personification of Time (Khronos) that it isn't Kronos, but the Titan isn't reduced to a "Male Demeter" without any parental love in his body? It's so simply, like how in many works Helios and Selene are personification of sun and moon respectively, but Apollo and Artemis are the gods of these astros without personifiying them, Kronos and Khronos could have this dynamic too.

[wonderingwarlockofthenight]

Uranus

Also known as; Ouranos, Caelus, Coelus, Rain Maker, Lord of Rain,

Primordial God and Personification of the skies and the heavens, and former King of the Gods

[mask131]

Hey, you all who make Greek mythology posts and videos and whatnot. Could you... stop treating "Protogenoi" as if it was some sort of clear-cut category of Greek mythology?

I don't know through who or when the whole "Oh yeah, Protogenoi is a definitive character-class of Greek mythology" began. I suspect it might have something to do with the Theoi website - which a LOT of person are using as a resource. But it definitively was popularized by the Percy Jackson fandom...

Olympian is a "category" of gods in Greek mythology, recognized both in religion and in poetry/fiction. It designates the gods that dwell on Olympus - twelve in its most limited acception, but many more if you extend it. Titan is also a specific "category", a denomination that isn't given randomly and whose exact meaning is debated (what is its etymology? Why were they named that way?), but it is the name the previous generation of gods before the Olympians received.

"Protogenoi"? Protogenoi is just putting a cap on an adjective that means "The first-borns". It is not a proper name. And I think I should insist on first bornSSSS because "protogenoi" is a plural, so stop using it as a singular. It isn't even a proper qualificative, because sometimes "protogenoi" is never used, other time you have "protogenos" as the qualificative of just ONE god. It is literaly just a broad and vast adjective to mean "they were the first gods". There isn't any official list like the Olympians or the Titans.

There is not, in Greek religion, or even in Greek poetry, a clear definition or any exact limit as to what a "protogenos" is - IF the term is even used! Because, unlike Olympians or Titans or Nereids or Oceanids, it is NOT an actual "religious terminology" or "mythological terminology". Look at all the encyclopedias of Greek mythology before the early 2010s, look at all the lists of Greek gods written during the 20th century... There will be talks of "primordial gods", of "elderly gods", of "first gods" - but you will see nobody using "Protogenoi" with a cap to make them equal to Olympians or Titans. That's... that's not how Greek mythology works.

Honestly, you can just use "primordial gods", it works the same.

And in general people have been completely taking qualifications of the Greek gods out of their context... Like "Chthonian gods". People treat it as if it was a specific clan or family of gods which... is not correct? "Chthonian" was an important religious and mythological concept in Ancient Greece - they literaly invented the adjective - but it was not like the Olympians or the Titans? It was a much broader category - it is literaly the same way you have "sea gods" and "sky gods". Chthonian gods are just the deities below the earth, and of the underworld... Not even of death sometimes (as many like to say), just below-the-earth, literaly "under the world", as opposed to celestial entities. (It is such a broad category that it can be used in other mythologies, and it has been used as such by researchers, archeologists and other historians of religion... Osiris is a chthonian power, a chthonic god! Though after that we enter the whole debate of "Should we use Greco-Roman terms like pantheon to designate gods of other cultures?")

Yes there are specific, clear-cut "groups" in Greek mythology. Clans and families and siblinghoods of gods. Nereids and Oceanids and Olympians and Titans and the Anemoi... But there are other groups which are not as integral to the Greek religion/myths or as clear cut as people seem to believe they are. "Sky gods", "earth gods", "sea gods", "primordial gods" are present as vague groups in Greek mythology but please stop treating them as if they had a distinction as important as the Aesir and Vanir. Greek mythology isn't just one big list or a big catalogue filled with neatly numbered boards. Where is the limit between a minor god and a daemon? Who knows! Not all Olympians are celestial gods: take Poseidon! And some gods literaly break all the established boundaries: for example Hekate, so beloved by everybody here - chthonian and celestial all at the same time!

[piristephes]

About the Primordials (Index)

Introduction

The Primordial Chaos

Gaia, the Earth Mother

Nyx, the Night

Ouranos, the Heavens

Pontus and Thalassa, the Seas.

[moremyth]

Gorgeous!

MYTHOLOGY MOODBOARDS • NYX for anonymous

“The great roots of night grow suddenly from your soul, and the things that hide in you come out again”. — Pablo Neruda, from The Light Wraps You.

[chthonioi]

"On a clear night, when Nyx in the heavens shows to men all her stars in their brightness and no star is borne faintly gleaming at the mid-month moon."

— Aratus, Phaenomena 468 ff

[apiswitchcraft]

altars for greek gods

this post includes hades, persephone, artemis, apollo, aphrodite, hermes, and hekate. for part 2 including zeus, hera, poseidon, hestia, hephaestus, dionysus, ares, demeter, and athena click here, for the titans and protogenoi click here.

keep in mind that this is largely UPG, new age stuff, and historically accurate offerings to the gods include meat, wine, grain (specifically barley), honey, and incense (myrrh and frankincense).

colors can be used for candles, banners, decor, whatever you want

HADES

Colors: black, red, and white for association with death. purple and metallics for association with riches/wealth

Offerings: mint, asphodel, white poplar, pomegranate, coffee, cinnamon, elm, money, chocolate

Crystals: gemstones, black crystals (obsidian, black tourmaline, smokey quartz, etc.), pyrite, hematite, labradorite

Animals: black ram, owl, serpent, Cerberus

PERSEPHONE

Colors: purple, pink, yellow, green for association with springtime. black and metallics for association with Hades. white for purity.

Offerings: pomegranate, flowers, grains, asphodel, lavender, rosemary

Crystals: amethyst, gemstones, moss/tree agate, milk quartz, jade, lepidolite

Animals: deer, ram, bat, talking birds (including parrots)

APHRODITE

Colors: red and pink for love/sexuality. white and blue for association with the ocean. gold for association with, well, gold.

Offerings: roses, chocolate, shells, myrrh, gold

Crystals: rose quartz, pearl, emerald, opal, aquamarine, rhodonite, rhodochrosite, ocean jasper, morganite

Animals: swan, dove, hare

ARTEMIS

Colors: white, blue, black, and grey for association with the heavens. brown and green for association with nature/the hunt.

Offerings: moon shaped foods, frankincense, cypress, mugwort, amaranth

Crystals: morganite, moonstone, aventurine, selenite, celestite, moss/tree agate, amethyst, quartz (specific dendritic), labradorite, silver

Animals: deer, wolf, wild boar

APOLLO

Colors: yellow, white, and blue for association with the heavens. red, orange, and pink for healing. purple and green for the Oracle

Offerings: sun shaped foods, bay leaves, laurel, cypress, playing music, poetry

Crystals: sunstone, amber, calcite (specifically honey and yellow), quartz (specifically rutilated or clear), rose quartz, silver

Animals: cow, snake, hawk, crow/raven, cicada, swan, bees

HERMES

Colors: green and gold for money/luck. white and brown for travels.

Offerings: money, crocus/saffron, strawberries

Crystals: jade, malachite, fluorite, pyrite, lapis lazuli, citrine, alexandrite

Animals: tortoise, ram

HEKATE

Colors: purple, blue, and green for magic. red and black for association with underworld

Offerings: garlic, saffron, crossroad dirt, black salt, ashes, sage, cedar, yew

Crystals: labradorite, obsidian, hematite, black tourmaline, amethyst, bloodstone, serpentine, lepidolite

Animals: wolf, boar, serpent, lion, horse, cow

[hermeneutas]

Os Primordiais - Nix, a Noite.

Continuando nossa série de posts sobre os protogenoi, volteamos nosso olhar para uma das divindades primordiais mais bem-conhecidas. Hoje, trataremos de falar da Mãe-Noite em pessoa, Nix.

Tendo nascido do Caos na maioria das histórias que narram a cosmogonia, Nix é a primordial da noite, representando o véu obscuro que encobre a terra após o fim do dia. Sua contraparte, Hemera, o Dia, é descrita como sua filha por Hesíodo na sua Teogonia, embora relatos de culto em si refiram-se mais à Éos, a titânide do alvorecer e irmã de Hélio (O Sol) e Selene (A Lua) como fonte inicial do dia, ocupando a função de Hemera nas demais narrativas como contraparte de Nix.

A Deusa é representada, quando em forma física, com uma forma alada e por vezes com uma biga puxada por cavalos. Descrita como consorte de Érebo, as Trevas, Nix governa o ciclo noturno e é a mãe de diversos Deuses e daimones notórios nas narrativas mitológicas.

Descrita como uma Deusa que passa a maior parte do tempo no Submundo quando o mundo está de dia, Nix é uma figura ímpar entre os protogenoi por ter um oráculo na região de Mégara atestado pelo romano Pausânias. Além disso, Homero a representa como uma figura imponente e poderosa, a qual Zeus em pessoa não desejava irritar na Ilíada. Ésquilo, em sua peça Agamemnôn, traz um agradecimento dos personagens por sua vitória em Tróia, honrando Zeus e Nix como trazedores dela, visto que nada ocorre sem a aprovação do Rei dos Deuses e a vitória bélica se deu no período noturno.

Entre a prole notável de Noite, temos diversos autores, como Hesíodo, Hígino e Cícero, que descrevem seus inúmeros filhos: Hipnos (Sono), Tânato (Morte), Moros (Ruína/Sina), as Moiras (Os Destinos), Éris (a Discórdia), Filotes (o Amor Amistoso), Geras (a Velhice), as Eumênides (As Benevolentes, chamadas de Fúrias), Nêmesis (a Vingança), Astra (as Estrelas), os Oneiros (Os Sonhos) e diversos outros Deuses.

Uma das deidades mais curiosas entre os protogenoi, Nix é uma figura envolta em mistério e aparenta ter figurado como uma presença imponente no imaginário dos antigos. Dotada da importante tarefa de trazer a noite, fonte de descanso e perigos igualmente, honremos a Deusa-Noite com o respeito que a ela lhe é devido.

[mayday396]

I Reblogged more info of Pontus trying to somewhat take a form, we don't talk about his attempt to take humanoid form

So here's him taking uwu shapes

Telemachus can carry him around in a vase form, or he can appear as a cute water slime or even a floating mass of Water.

Eldritch Voice still present tho

Telemachus but his Friend is THE OCEAN, not Poseidon, but the formless being that Poseidon just so happen to "Inherit"

Pontus, the Greek Primordial God of the Seas, never made a humanoid form before, and talks as this disembodied voice in what can be described like a Deep Crashing wave/Eldritch Horror.

And he's mostly like, "CHILD OF THE ἸΌΝΙΟΣ WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO CAUSE ΠΟΣΕΙΔΆϜOΝΟΣ (POSEIDON) MINOR INCONVENIENCES?"

[yourgodlyparent]

Hemera: Primordial Goddess of the Day

Hemera kids 🌅Habitually optimistic 🌅Love to explore new places 🌅Can’t walk away from a confrontation 🌅Persistent

No Cabin Assigned Yet Roman Aspect: Dies