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"At the beginning there was only Chaos, Night, dark Erebus, and deep Tartarus. Earth, the air and heaven had no existence. Firstly, blackwinged Night laid a germless egg in the bosom of the infinite deeps of Erebus, and from this, after the revolution of long ages, sprang the graceful Eros with his glittering golden wings, swift as the whirlwinds of the tempest. He mated in deep Tartarus with dark Chaos, winged like himself, and thus hatched forth our race, which was the first to see the light. That of the Immortals did not exist until Eros had brought together all the ingredients of the world, and from their marriage Heaven, Ocean, Earth, and the imperishable race of blessed gods sprang into being. Thus our origin is very much older than that of the dwellers in Olympus. We are the offspring of Eros; there are a thousand proofs to show it. We have wings and we lend assistance to lovers. How many handsome youths, who had sworn to remain insensible, have opened their thighs because of our power and have yielded themselves to their lovers when almost at the end of their youth, being led away by the gift of a quail, a waterfowl, a goose, or a cock."
― Aristophanes (The Birds)
"Before the ocean and the earth appeared, before the skies had overspread them all, the face of Nature in a vast expanse was naught but Chaos uniformly waste. It was a rude and undeveloped mass, that nothing made except a ponderous weight; and all discordant elements confused, were there congested in a shapeless heap."
― Ovid. Metamorphoses 1.5-9 (Trans. B. Moore)
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And The Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters."
― Genesis 1-2 (The Bible)
"When on high the heaven had not been named, Firm ground below had not been called by name, Naught but primordial Apsu, their begetter, Mummu. Tiamat, she who bore them all, Their waters commingling as a single body; No reed hut had been matted, no marsh land had appeared, When no gods whatever had been brought into being, Uncalled by name, their destinies undetermined Then it was that the gods were formed within them."
― Tablet 1 (Enuma Eliš)
"𝐵𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 Tℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟, 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑑. 𝐺𝑜𝑑'𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑟𝑎ℎ𝑚𝑎. 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑖𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙. 𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑑-- 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙, 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛."
― The Opening of Justice League Dark 2011 Issue #39 (DC Comics)

The archetype for characters who embody the primordial beginning. Variation of Anti-God. Ultimate version of Chaos Embodiment, Nothingness Physiology and Primordial Force Mimicry.

Also Called[]

  • Choshek
  • Primordial Beginning/Chaos/Nothingness/Void/Waters Embodiment
  • Tehom
  • Tohu-Wa-Bohu

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As an archetype, Users are the mythological void state preceding the creation of the universe (the cosmos) appearing in many creation myths. The etymology for Chaos or in Greek kháos (χάος) means 'emptiness, vast void, chasm, and abyss. The etymology is also related to the verbs kháskō (χάσκω) and khaínō (χαίνω) meaning 'gape, be wide open', from Proto-Indo-European as well as cognate to Old English geanian, 'to gape'. It may also mean space, the expanse of air, the nether abyss or infinite darkness. Pherecydes of Syros (fl. 6th century BC) interprets chaos as water, like something formless that can be differentiated. The term chaos has been adopted in religious studies as referring to the primordial state before creation, strictly combining many separate notions of primordial waters, primordial darkness, void, formlessness or pre-existing unmanifested matter from which a new order emerges and a primordial state as a merging of opposites, such as heaven and earth, which must be formed or separated by a creator deity in an act of cosmogony. In both cases, chaos refers to a notion of a primordial state contains the cosmos in potentia but needs to be brought about by a demiurge before the world can begin its existence.

Users usually are also present in an event or motif called Chaoskampf (which is German for 'struggle against chaos') which is ubiquitous in myth and legend, depicting a battle of a primordial culture hero deity with a chaos monster, often in the shape of a serpent or dragon. The deity would soon defeat the chaos monster and declare it's enthronement as well as the creation of the universe. Parallel concepts appear in the Middle East and North Africa, such as the abstract conflict of ideas in the Egyptian duality of Maat and Isfet or the battle of Horus and Set.

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  • Users are at times may always defeated by primordial deities before the creation of the universe.
    • Users are usually at the mercy of Monotheistic/Trinitarian deities, They can do nothing against them.
      • Inversely, due to their power being the anti-thesis of order, divinity and purifics. Khaos could essentially overpower Monotheistic entities as their very presence is caustic to even their magnificence.
        • Likewise, Trinitarian supremacy's can be potentially assimilated by Khaos absconding their power to fuel its own. The ancient essence of the former possibly being missing fragments of their being that split off during the grand creation.

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See Also: Primordial Chaos.

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