#khaos deity

[thechaoticfanartist]

Khaos!!

Design by @chemicalforgery! So much fun to draw.

[mythicalmuseomine]

Lord/Lady Khaos

God/Goddess of Chaos

I take requests

Requested by @chemicalforgery

[chemicalforgery]

Shrine of the Lesser Known - Khaos

Shrine of the Lesser Known is a personal project in which I research various lesser known deities and share my findings with the community. The first deity on my list is Khaos/Chaos.

"Verily at the first Khaos (Chaos, the Chasm) [Air] came to be, but next wide-bosomed Gaia (Gaea, Earth), the ever-sure foundations of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympos . . . From Khaos (Chaos) came forth Erebos (Darkness) and black Nyx (Night)."

Khaos, also known as Chaos or Aēr, is the first primordial deity in Hellenic believes and the progenitor for all other deities. Before Khaos there was nothing and after Khaos came all the other primordial gods, titans, gods, humans and so on. She is considered the endless void, the abyss, the chasm of air, the lower atmosphere which surrounds the earth - both the invisible air and the gloom of fog and mist. She is also believed to be the goddess of birds and one of the goddesses of fate.

When it comes to the gender of Khaos, the sources have mixed opinions. Overall, she is a sexless deity, referred by both she/her and he/him pronouns in various sources. In more modern media, the pronouns they/them have also been adopted when referring to any representation of Khaos.

Khaos has only two children, Nyx and Erebus. The other primordial gods came after Khaos, but not born from Khaos.

The information on Khaos is few and hard to come by. Since she mostly represented the endless void of nothingness from which everything else was born, the ancient greeks were hesitant to worship her. But in modern times, the general opinion has changed and, although still small, there is a community of Khaos worshippers (using the word "community" loosely since there is nothing formaly organised).

Resources:

The Greek God Family Tree: A Complete Family Tree of All Greek Deities | History Cooperative

The ancient Greek god family tree is complex and spans thousands of years. Read all about it and learn how Greek mythology characters are re

Chaos – Mythopedia

Chaos was one of the primordial gods and, according to the common tradition, the very first being that came into existence. Best translated

Chaos: Greek God of Air, and Parent of Everything | History Cooperative

Used today to describe disorder and mayhem, Chaos was originally a primordial Greek god essential to ancient understandings of creation. Rea

In Greek mythology Chaos was the first of the primordial gods (protogenoi) to emerge at the dawn of creation. She was followed in quick succ

[morphic-mythos]

When most people think of Khaos, they tend to conceptualize Them as a progenitor: the first being from which all things descend. In this sense, Khaos is generally perceived as the cradle of existence, or the foundation upon which the universe rests. They are equated to space, the void between planets and galaxies; They represent the dark womb that feeds new life.

—Excerpt from a public article on Patreon: "Conceptualizing Khaos"

[wisdom-devotee]

Very nervous to ask this but I don't want to get it wrong! Would Khaos be considered ouranic? The information isn't the most clear - am I even allowed to worship a primordial goddess? 😓

You can absolutely worship the primordials!

I don’t know if Khaos is necessarily either though, as their existence predates the sky, the earth, etc, which is how chthonic and ouranic are categorised. Due to this I could see arguments for either, though I lean more towards ouranic. I’d probably treat them similarly to other gods who have aspects of both.

The reason I lean towards ouranic is because of the theoi.com page, which states “The word khaos means "gap" or "chasm" being the space between heaven and earth” — to me this sounds ouranic (heavenly) as opposed to the underworld that is associated with chthonic deities.

[pc-paganism-and-polytheism]

Working with Chaos, the Primordial Void

Disclaimer: THIS IS ALL UPG! I am not an authority figure, this is just my personal experience.

It can be really difficult.

Mostly bc there's so little information about them out there. (Theoi is fine enough but it has its shortfalls)

And working with the embodiment of disorder and darkness is... tough sometimes.

But it is so rewarding.

Chaos has helped me accept change in my life, for better or worse. All things must transform and so I must change with it. They have seen me through some of the hardest times in my life, showing me that I can still affect positive change, despite all the negativity happening around me.

I am a person that likes order. I like when things are predictable and go as they have always gone. However, sometimes that order is detrimental. Chaos helped me see that some orders and habits are harmful more than helpful. By abandoning these and embracing the chaos as something new is made, I have made better decisions.

The other deities I honour are wonderful. They all bring something so unique to my life and to my practice. But it is Chaos I honour first in the morning and last at night. It is Chaos I think of first when I feel the wind or sit in the darkness. It is Chaos I call my Patron.

Glory to Chaos, the Void from which All Things were formed.

May we meet again.

[tadpoles-and-daydreams]

First meditation with Khaos, the vast void of space

Quick warnings: this is a pretty long post, but I'm using it as a way to record everything I remember happening during this meditation so it has things other than just what happened with Khaos! This is also actually originally written weeks ago, I just left it in my drafts for ages whoops.

Another note: I won't be using only she/her pronouns for Khaos in the future, although I don't think they give a singular fuck either way, I just am tired today and wanted to get this posted without having to edit it.

UPG disclaimer. Even the title is UPG, my personal associations with Khaos.

So, I had things to do and decided I wanted to have a proper chat with Loki about it. I started up my meditation music, grabbed whatever crystals felt right, and laid down.

One of the first things they did was hug me. I am someone who has issues with receiving love, and this caught me entirely off guard. Of course I go "wtf bitch you can't do that???" And he basically told me something along the lines of "fuck you I do what I want." (Note: Loki is deeply salty that I cannot remember their actual wording, as it did not have the boundary breaking "I hug you if I want no matter your thoughts on it" implications this wording does. Loki is big on boundaries being respected with me. I feel the need to write that down.)

But we chatted about a spell I was planning, and Loki- who promptly draped himself across a couple logs all dramatically- was very enthusiastic about helping. We went back and forth, I also brought up Apollo to say hello, and then I felt... someone on the edge of things. Apollo was pretty abruptly gone, which makes sense for reasons I'll explain in a moment.

Loki stepped beside me, and sort of had their arm over my shoulders in a distinctly protective manner. Thing is, nothing felt malicious, and I asked them why the hell they seemed so protective when I felt perfectly safe. They explained that I was safe, but "she's pretty fucking intimidating so you might need someone to keep you steady."

Enter Khaos. I realized it was her because instead of a humanoid, or even recognizable form, suddenly within the protected astral space I go when I meditate (I'll just call it "homespace" from now on) is this massive fucking orb of void.

Except this is much bigger, and the orb I was met with was only... "half" of one. Like it'd been sliced, a few solid chunks cut out, like when a video game renders wrong and certain chunks won't load. I actively tried to imagine it as whole, to change it- it wouldn't budge. When I took the above screenshot as a reference, seeing how tiny my character was compared to the in-game thing that I compared Khaos to, it brought a whole new meaning to Loki's explanation as to why it was only half of an orb.

"She's trying not to scare you."

Loki assured me that they would be with me the whole time, that we were not leaving homespace and the orb was completely within the protection of homespace, and we walked in. It was pitch black, void all around, and I could see Loki as if he was lit up in the middle of day but that was it. Khaos came out of the void, sort of appearing out of the "wall" of darkness- being formed from it herself as if it were liquid. I asked her what she had to say.

She looked at me, just smiled, and said "good luck."

I admit, I laughed. I pointed out that THAT sounded ominous as hell. I knew what she meant- she was genuinely wishing me luck, since I have a lot of growth ahead of me and working with her is going to be a pretty big deal for me. But at the time, I couldn't help but laugh. Later, when I was recounting this to my mom, I got a very clear image of hands of darkness holding a bright orb of light. Offering it to me. It wasn't just wishing me luck. It was a gift.

Not long after that, I was suddenly made more aware of my physical body in the form of an ant crawling across me. I got the ant off of me, and went back- only to find that I couldn't just go back to the void we were standing in. Loki met me where we originally had started, and confirmed that I wasn't able to go into her space uninvited. I told them I couldn't go through the process of getting further into a meditative state and walking back into the void, and they said it was okay.

And I swear to you, I'm not fucking with you when I say this is exactly what was said next.

Me: "So... It's so interesting- Is the only way to talk to her to go into the void, be consumed by her energy entirely?"

Khaos, suddenly behind me: "Sort of, but not entirely no."

Me, finding out that my startle reflex is just as bad in the astral: "JESUS FUCKING CHRIST-"

Khaos: "No." (As in no, she's not Jesus. /Lh I just feel like it might not be clear!)

You guys. She wasn't even trying to be funny. I adore Khaos already I'm gonna have a fucking great time.

[royal-wren]

Muses, sing of all our primordial mothers that make or break our daily existence

Sing of Khaos, greatest mother of all that we appreciate with every breath

Sing of Ananke, even above the Fates as our all-wise mother overseeing and dictating all as the drive and inevitability from beginning to end before her might

Sing of Nyx, a mother so fair and equally loving to every child as innumerable as the very stars she wears proudly

Sing of Gaia, above all the mother watching us all, the one who gives, gives, and gives with the greatest love and devotion to nourish us all

Sing of Hemera, our warm, bright, light-bringing and all-seeing mother who reminds us all to open our eyes and rouse from heavy sleep with a chorus from every bird loud and alert

Sing of Thalassa, mother at sea to all life inhabiting her depths -- and to all that dare to cross and tred her great waters

Sing of Tethys, mother to all bodies of fresh water found in Rivers, Clouds and Water-nymphs, the wing-browed nurse who remains the source of it all