Hypnos chaos and pain
Apollo realizes that even Zeus couldn't see their fight at the edge of Chaos and Apollo reassures his father and the other gods that Python no longer exists.Īs the first primordial God and creator of the universe, Chaos is the ancestor of all gods and therefore inviolable to any one of them, since they are only "parts" of their own creation. Two weeks later, Zeus states that Apollo erasing Python for existence appears to have worked. Apollo becomes a god again and pulls himself up before returning to Mount Olympus. Styx appears to Apollo and encourages him to hold on to both the ledge and the lesson that he has learned. Apollo manages to kick Python free, sending him falling into Chaos, erasing Python from existence. As they continue to struggle, Apollo and Python dangle on a ledge over Chaos. Meg McCaffrey and Apollo's consciousness took a brief trip through Chaos, which Apollo shields Meg from.Īpollo encourages Helios to fade back into Chaos.Īpollo and Python's battle causes them to fall through Tartarus all the way to the very edge of Chaos itself which starts stripping apart the two. They managed to make it past both Chaos and the River Acheron into the heart of Tartarus, the current home of the Doors of Death.
Later, while confronting Nyx and her children, Percy and Annabeth leapt through the Mansion of Night, risking tumbling into Chaos - which would have meant a true death, as their very souls would be destroyed. Being brought to the edge of Chaos grants them the Death Mist. She showed the two demigods that below them they would see her mother, the earliest darkness, and her father, Chaos. Akhlys explained that even Tartarus had to rise from "somewhere". While in Tartarus, Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase confronted Akhlys at the "verge of final death, where Night meets the void below Tartarus." Annabeth reacted with surprise that " anything" was below Tartarus. Hera tearfully embraced him and promised to never to call Hephaestus ugly ever again. Hephaestus could hear the wails of his mother all the way from Mount Olympus, which infuriated him, as he could not bear to hear her suffering such a harsh punishment. Every day, Zeus would visit his wife with the Master Bolt and threaten to let her tumble into the void. While Apollo and Poseidon were temporarily stripped of their godly powers, Hera was given the worst punishment of all: she was chained right above the terrifying abyss of Chaos. In some myths, Eros also emerged from Chaos.Ĭhaos's great-granddaughter Hera, who was suspended above the void as punishmentĪfter beginning an Olympian riot against her husband Zeus, Hera and the other gods were punished for their rebellion. Along with Nyx, Chaos created Misery/Poison ( Akhlys). Later, Night ( Nyx) would also be born from Chaos in union with Tartarus. The ground was unstable, the waves unswimmable, the airs lightless no form of anything lasted, for one hindered another, and in one body cold contended with hot, wet strove against dry, soft things fought with hard things, and the weightless grappled with the weightful.Įventually, some of Chaos' matter collected to form the Earth ( Gaea), the Sky ( Ouranos), the Seas ( Pontos), the Infernal Pit ( Tartarus), and the Mist/Darkness ( Erebos). No Titan yet gave forth his sunlight to the world, nor yet did Selene display the waxing moon, nor did an earth yet hang in surrounding air, nor had yet Amphitrite held in her embrace the far reaches of the world. It was a rough and uneven mass, in which there was nothing except idle weight and the congealed, dissonant seeds of unstable things. The children of Chaos: Ouranos, Gaea and Tartarusīefore the sea and lands and sky, there was but one face of nature in the entire universe, whom they called Chaos.