Name origin: Ancient Egyptian personification of chaos, also known as Apep or Apepi, and the opponent of Ra (light) and Ma’at (order/truth). Appears in art as a giant serpent. He is supposed to lie below the horizon and not remain in the mortal kingdom, thus consigning him to the underworld.
Sedna is an Inuit sea goddess, mother of all sea creatures and provider of food for the people. She is one of the most important Inuit figures.
Name origin: Centaur in Greek myth. Along with fellow centaurs, Ekheklos attended the Lapith king Pirithous’ wedding and was killed by Ampyx, who had thrust his lance that lacked its point into Ekheklos’ face. Name may mean ‘sticky’ or ‘glutinous’.
Deukalion, along with his wife Pyrrha, daughter of Pandora, lived in the northern reaches of Greece. Zeus, angered by the impiety of humankind at the time, sent the Great Deluge. Prometheus warned Deukalion and Pyrrha of the impending apocalypse and they survived by mounting a chest and reaching the dry peaks of Mount Parnassos. Once the waters receded, the couple consulted the Delphic Oracle on how to repopulate the earth.
Typhon was a storm-giant, so huge that his head was said to brush the stars, who laid siege to the realm of the gods but was defeated by Zeus. He is said to be the cause of volcanic eruptions and of devastating storms. His name is considered to be a possible etymology for the word “typhoon”. Ekhidna was his consort, a she-dragon who birthed a number of the Titans.
Name origin: Greek son of Zeus and Europa. Because of his just and upright life, after death Rhadamanthus was appointed a judge of the dead and the ruler of Elysium, a blissfully beautiful area of the Underworld where those favoured by the gods spent their life after death.
Name origin: Greek; one of the Centaurs. Thereus was killed at the Lapith wedding by Theseus; he was a bear hunter “who used to take bears on the mountain slopes of Thessaly, and carry them home angry and alive.”
Name origin: Hindu god of water and the celestial ocean. Varuna was also the god of law in the underwater world, and may have been replaced eventually by Indra. He is said to have unlimited knowledge.
In Greek myth, Chaos was the primordial void state before the creation of the universe.
sbolos was a diviner who read omens in the flight of birds, and who predicted the battle with the Lapiths. He eventually caused the fight with Herakles (by bringing the centaurs when he saw Herakles’ wine opened), and thus was indirectly responsible for the deaths of Pholus and Chiron.
