- Primordial Beginnings: Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros
Cosmogony / Theogony · Hesiodic
- Orphic Cosmogony (Brief — Distinct Tradition Note)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Orphic tradition (not Hesiodic main line) · Orphic / late classical–Hellenistic notices (labeled distinct from Hesiod)
- Children of Nyx (Hesiodic Catalogue)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night and her brood · Hesiodic (*Theogony* catalogue of Night’s offspring)
- Children of Eris (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — personified ills · Hesiodic — Eris’s brood in the *Theogony* (with *Works and Days* double-Eris background)
- The Moirae as Daughters of Night (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Fates · Hesiodic — Moirae born of Nyx (parallel to Zeus–Themis line)
- The Keres: Death-Spirits of Night (Hesiod and Homer)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / battlefield death · Hesiodic catalogue + Homeric battlefield Keres
- Geras: Old Age, Child of Night (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified old age · Hesiodic — Geras among Nyx’s children
- Hypnos and Thanatos: Sleep and Death, Children of Night
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Sleep and Death · Hesiodic genealogy (+ Homeric twin imagery)
- Momus: Blame, Child of Night (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified blame · Hesiodic — Momos among Nyx’s children
- Nemesis: Daughter of Night (Hesiodic Birth)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / divine retribution · Hesiodic — Nemesis as Night’s daughter (genealogy only)
- Oizys: Distress, Child of Night (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified distress · Hesiodic — Oizys (Distress/Woe) among Nyx’s children
- Apate: Deceit, Child of Night (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified deceit · Hesiodic — Apate (Deceit) among Nyx’s children
- Philotes: Affection, Child of Night (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified affection · Hesiodic — Philotes (Affection / sexual love) among Nyx’s children
- Moros: Doom, Child of Night (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / personified doom · Hesiodic — Moros (Doom) among Nyx’s first-born
- The Oneiroi: Dreams, Children of Night (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Dreams · Hesiodic — the tribe of Dreams (Oneiroi) born of Nyx
- Eris: Discord, Child of Night (Hesiodic Birth)
Cosmogony / Theogony — Night’s brood / Strife · Hesiodic — Eris (Strife) as Night’s daughter (genealogy only)
- Erebus and Nyx: Birth of Aether and Hemera
Cosmogony / Theogony — primordial pairs / Day and bright air · Hesiodic — Aether and Day born of Night and Erebus
- The Topography of Tartarus (Hesiod)
Cosmogony / Theogony — underworld geography / cosmic architecture · Hesiodic — Tartarus’s measures, gates, and residents beyond Titan imprisonment alone
- Zeus and Themis: The Hours and the Fates (Hesiod)
Olympian gods — Zeus’s marriages / order and law · Hesiodic
- Hera Bribes Hypnos to Lull Zeus (*Iliad* 14)
Trojan — Homeric *Iliad* / Dios apate prelude · Homeric — Sleep’s fear of Zeus; promise of Pasithea; lull on Ida
- Hesperides as Atlas’s Daughters (Genealogy)
Local and lesser — Atlasid genealogy / western nymphs · Hesiodic (Night-born) vs. mythographic Atlasid