Eros (Primordial)

### Titles

Divinity of Love, God of Erotic Love, God of Fertility, God of Procreation, God of Friendship and Liberty, God of The West, Leader of the Erotes, Leader of the Olympians, Father of the Amores

## Profile

### Personify

Love, Desire, Passion, Procreation, Fertility

### Occupation

One of the Protogenoi, Master of the Erotes and Amores

## Design

### Body Shape

Abstract (True), Winged Humanoid (Physical)

## Relationships

### Siblings

Chronos, Phanes, Tartarus, Gaia, Nyx, Erebus

## Other

### Status

Active

**Eros** is the Greek Primordial God of Love and Desire, known for being the most beautiful of the immortal gods.

## Overview

He is a primeval deity who embodies not only the force of erotic love but also the creative urge of ever-flowing nature, the firstborn Light for the coming into being and ordering of all things in the cosmos. He was the driving force behind the generation of new life in the cosmos.

Eros was the son of Khaos, the original emptiness of the Universe. Eros is the younger brother to Chronos, Tartarus and Gaia and the older brother to Nyx and Erebus. In Hesiod's version, Eros was the "fairest among the immortal gods ... who conquers the mind and sensible thoughts of all gods and men."

A universal cosmic force, he became Aphrodite’s companion soon after her birth, which he had previously overseen. Before he would become one with the concepts of existence and that which gives purpose to all things, Eros placed a piece of himself within the womb of Aphrodite in order to be reborn as a lesser but mighty god, likely around during the concept of said deity between Aphrodite and Ares, and finds a place among the Olympian pantheon to become the god of love.

## Powers and Abilities

Eros, despite being a love deity, is so powerful that even Zeus shows apprehension of him as the Primordial exceeds Zeus in power and age.

## Myths and Legends

Eros appears in many myths, though not by name. In every instance of love or romance, Eros is present, because he is love. Despite this, he has no actual role in myths, aside from his presence as love.

In Hesiod's Theogony, the most famous Greek creation myth, Eros sprang forth from the primordial chaos together with Gaia, the Earth, and Tartarus, the underworld; according to Aristophanes' play The Birds (c. 414 BC), he burgeons forth from an egg laid by Nyx (Night) conceived with Erebus (Darkness). In the Eleusinian Mysteries, he was worshiped as Protogonus, the first-born.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, one of the most ancient of all Greek sources, Eros was the fourth god to come into existence, coming after Chaos, Gaia, and Tartarus. Homer does not mention Eros. However, Parmenides (c. 400 BC), one of the pre-Socratic philosophers, makes Eros the first of all the gods to come into existence.

The Orphic and Eleusinian Mysteries featured Eros as a very original god, but not quite primordial, since he was the child of Night (Nyx). Aristophanes, influenced by Orphism, relates the birth of Eros.

## Quotes

* *"Father figure my perfect behind. How dare that old brat said that! The entire time I was with him, I was practically his mom! The sheer disrespect that bastard give me! Why, I should have dump him in a retire home the moment I can!"* - Aphrodite.

* *"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."* - Orphic and Eleusinian Mysteries.

## Gallery

*Eros with Nyx**Eros holding the planet Venus**Eros assuming a female form*
## Trivia

* He was also equivalent to Thesis (Creation) and Physis (Nature).
* Eros has been connected to the primordial entity Phanes to where sometimes they are both treated as the same deity.
* He also has a weaker counterpart also known as Eros whom he and vice versa get mistaken identity which each other.

## Image Sources

* (Eros stregatto10.jpg) Eros by stregatto10
* (Guk-hwa-greece.jpg) Nyx & Eros by gukkhwa
* (Primordial god eros by anniflamma daeuj6l-fullview.jpg) Primordial god, Eros by AnniFlamma
* (Eros Divinity of love.jpg) Eros - Divinty of love by VirginieSiveton