Erebus’s Family Tree

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Family

• Chaos(parent),Eros(sibling),Gaia(sibling),Nyx(sibling)— Miraculous

  From Chaos arose the first beings of the cosmos: broad-bosomed Gaia, murky Tartarus beneath the earth, Eros the fairest of the immortals, dark Erebus, and black Nyx.

• Nyx(spouse),Aether(child),Charon(child),Hemera(child)— Consort

  Nyx and Erebus, primordial Night and Darkness, lay together and bore Aether the bright upper air, Hemera the Day, and Charon the ferryman who carries the dead across the rivers of the underworld.

• Nox(spouse, Roman),Charon(child, Roman)— Consort

  Erebus and Nox, the primordial darkness and night, begat Charon, the grim ferryman who poles the dead across the Styx to Pluto's realm.

Associated with

• Charon

  Charon ferries the souls of the dead across the rivers of the Underworld through the darkness of Erebus. The primordial shadow that Erebus personifies shrouds the passage between the living world and Hades' realm.

• Phobetor

  Erebus, the primordial darkness, envelops the cave where Phobetor and the Oneiroi dwell. The nightmares Phobetor shapes draw their power from the deep darkness that Erebus personifies.

• Thanatos

  In some traditions, Thanatos dwells in the darkness of Erebus alongside his twin Hypnos. As a son of Nyx and possibly Erebus, Death inhabits the primordial shadow between the world of the living and the deeper Underworld.

• Underworld

  Erebus, the primordial darkness, is closely identified with the Underworld. The realm is sometimes called Erebus, and his darkness pervades its shadowed spaces.