![]() TA′RTARUS (Tartaros), a son of Aether and Ge, and by his mother Ge the father of the Gigantes, Typhoeus and Echidna. ![]() THE TELKHINES (by Nemesis) (Bacchylides Frag 52) TYPHON, THE GIGANTES (by Gaia) (Hyginus Preface) TYPHON, EKHIDNA (by Gaia) (Apollodorus 1.39 & 2.4) TYPHOEUS (by Gaia) (Hesiod Theogony 820) AITHER (or OURANOS) & GAIA (Hyginus Preface) OFFSPRING NONE (one of the first to emerge at creation) (Hesiod Theogony 116) Together the Ouranion-dome and Tartarean-pit enclosed the entire cosmos in an egg-shaped or spherical shell.įor cosmographical descriptions of the Tartarean pit Tartaros was envisaged as the opposite of the sky, an inverted-dome lying beneath the flat earth. He was the body of the pit itself rather than an athropomorphic deity. TARTAROS (Tartarus) was the primordial god (protogenos) of the stormy pit of Tartaros that lies beneath the foundations of the earth.
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