“ | People inherently fear darkness, all for the wrong reasons. Darkness isn't scary. It's calm. It's soothing. It's protection. People aren't afraid of the dark. They're afraid of the unknown living within it, and me, its king. | „ |
~ Erebus |
Erebus, also known as Erebos or Scotus, is the Primordial god of Darkness and Mist, the second ruler of the cosmos along with being a child of Chaos. He was also the husband of Nyx.
Description[]
Erebus has no physical form, as such it is highly difficult to interpret him in an appearance. Like Nyx can only be seen as the nighttime sky, Erebus on the other hand can only be witnessed as the shadows and darkness that lurk about and leak in the nooks and crevices of the world itself. However, Erebus is capable of taking a form, although not physical, but a spectral one. Although, it is believed that this form merely acts as his avatar.
Overview[]
While he is featured little in Greek mythology, he is known to have fathered several other deities with Nyx; depending on the source of the mythology, this union includes Aether, Hemera, Hypnos, the Sisters of Fate, Geras, Styx, Charon, and Thanatos. In Greek literature, Erebus is also used of a region of the Greek underworld where the dead pass immediately after dying, and is sometimes used interchangeably with Tartarus.
Erebus functions as the unanthropomorphized personification of darkness in the Theogony, and features little in Greek mythological tradition and literature. Though he plays no active role as a deity in later works, "Erebus" is used as a name for a region of the Greek underworld where the dead pass immediately after dying, and is sometimes used interchangeably with Tartarus.