Chaos
This article is about the mythological concept. See Chaos theory for the mathematics term.In Greek mythology, Chaos is the primeval state of existence from which the first gods appeared. The word "chaos" means "gaping void" in Greek. As a god, Chaos was the nothingness out of which the first objects of existence appeared. These first beings, described as children of Chaos alone, were Gaia, Tartarus and Eros, sometimes also including Nyx and Erebus. Ovid described Chaos in Metamorphoses as "rather a crude and indigested mass, a lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, of jarring seeds and justly Chaos named." According to some sources Chaos was the offspring of Chronos.
Ovid. Metamorphoses; Hesiod. Theogony. (123-132)
Also a cat Muppet character in the children's television show Sesame Park.
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peace. He was absent now, and the visitors took possession of this
ladies sitting in the tower, boys disporting themselves on the roof,
scene with intense interest, and wondering if the little girls she saw
a path wound along to the beach, whence came the cool dash of
said, looking as eager as a little gull shut up in a cage and pining
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camp-stools, the shawls, the air-cushions, and the big parasols.
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