Primordial Chaos: When Nothing Became Everything | Greek Mythology S1•E1

Part of the Definitive Greek Mythology Series - Season 1: The Primordial Age. Before Titans and Olympians, there was Chaos. Then came Gaia, Tartarus and Eros. From Chaos came Erebus and Nyx, and from darkness the first shape of the cosmos began to emerge. But Greek creation was never preserved in a single voice. Other traditions carried the beginning elsewhere. In the Orphic cosmogony, primordial Time and Necessity stand near the beginning, and from the Cosmic Egg comes Phanes, the First-Born Light. The episode also follows the Eurynome and Ophion creation tradition. This first episode follows those ancient strands through the birth of earth, abyss, night, sea, light and fate - until the cosmos begins to take form. MYTHIC TIMELINE 00:00 Opening: Myth2Myth 00:27 Chaos Awakens 02:58 Gaia Emerges 04:01 Tartarus Rises 05:03 Eros Ignites 06:08 Erebus 07:13 Nyx Reigns 08:23 Aether and Hemera 09:49 The Ourea 10:54 Pontos and Thalassa 13:19 Chronos 14:19 Ananke 15:20 The Cosmic Egg 16:24 Phanes 18:29 Eurynome and Ophion 24:34 The Moirai 29:16 The Cosmos Complete 31:07 Conclusion SOURCES AND TRADITIONS Hesiod's Theogony, Orphic traditions, Pausanias, and modern scholarship including Walter Burkert, Karl Kerenyi and M. L. West. Myth2Myth - Greek mythology told from ancient sources.