Eros (primordial deity)

In Greek mythology, Eros (Greek: Ερος, "sexual desire") was the primordial god of procreation and personified the driving force behind new generations of life. Hesiod writes that Eros was the fourth being to come into existence, only after Chaos, Gaea, and Tartarus. Eros as a primordial deity was also mentioned by Parmenides as the first deity to come into existence. Aristophanes also writes about the birth of Eros:
At the beginning there was only Chaos, Night (Nyx), Darkness (Erebus), and the Abyss (Tartarus). Earth, the Air and Heaven had no existence. Firstly, blackwinged Night laid a germless egg in the bosom of the infinite deeps of Darkness, and from this, after the revolution of long ages, sprang the graceful Love (Eros) with his glittering golden wings, swift as the whirlwinds of the tempest. He mated in the deep Abyss with dark Chaos, winged like himself, and thus hatched forth our race, which was the first to see the light.
Category:Greek deities
Category:Greek primordial deities