In the Beginning

  Before there was anything, there was “Chaos”.  Chaos was the empty void before all things.  Chaos was the nothingness, the primal reality before the universe came to be.  Chaos translates from Ancient Greece to gaping void and is personified as a female.  Chaos is some kind of dwelling place, the middle ground between heaven and earth.   Then Chaos went did something really unexpected..... Chaos started having children.  The first primordial was Gaia, the personification of the earth.  Next was Tartarus, the hellish “Abyss” of punishment forthe wicked.  With these two out of the way, Chaos gave birth to Eros, the Greek god of love.  So, “In the Beginning”, the first three elements of creation was life, death and sex.   She later gave birth to two more children, Erebus and Nyx.   The modern scientific meaning of Chaos differs from the ancient Greek concept. Ovid, a Roman thinker, thought of Chaos as not a formless void from which all things were made, but as a formless, jumbled disor