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Phanes (mythology)

Greek deitiesseries

Titans and Olympians

Aquatic deities

Chthonic deities

Personified concepts

Other deities

Primordial deities

Aether Hemera

Ananke Nyx

Chaos Phanes

Chronos Pontus Erebus Tartarus

Eros Thalassa

Gaia Uranus

Phanes (Ancient Greek: , from , phain, "I bring to light"), or Protogonos (Greek: ,

"First-born"), was the mystic primeval deity of procreation and the generation of new life, who was introduced into

Greek mythology by the Orphic tradition; other names for this Classical Greek Orphic concept included Ericapaeus

( or "power") and Metis ("thought"). In these myths Phanes is often equated with Eros and

Mithras and has been depicted as a deity emerging from a cosmic egg, entwined with a serpent. He had a helmet and

had broad, golden wings.

Many threads of earlier myths are apparent in the new tradition. Phanes was believed to have been hatched from the

World-Egg of Chronos (Time) and Ananke (Necessity). His older wife Nyx (Night) called him Protogenus. As she

created nighttime, he created daytime. He also created the method of creation by mingling. He was made the ruler of

the deities and passed the sceptre to Nyx. This new Orphic tradition states that Nyx later gave the sceptre to her son

Uranos before it passed to Cronus and then to Zeus, who retained it.

It is also believed that by his centuries-old battle with Chaos, the creation of birds took place as the result.

The "Protogonos Theogony" is known through the commentary in the Derveni papyrus and references in

Empedocles and Pindar.

External links Protogonus (Phanes) [1]

Theoi Project: Phanes [2]

Suda entry [3]

Phanes coins [4]

References

[1] http://timelessmyths.com/classical/primeval.html#Protogonus

[2] http://theoi.com/Protogenos/Phanes.html

[3] http://www.stoa.org/sol-entries/phi/72

[4] http://www.coinlink.com/News/ancients/first-money-in-human-history-worth-200000-euros/

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