Kosmos Was a concept in Greek philosophy that described roughly what we today would call the cosmos or the universe. The intricate order of things. We do not have an example of Kosmos being seen as a deity. Rather, the various gods had their duties in keeping the cosmos running. Answer from Historical_Sugar9637 on reddit.com
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Fandom
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Cosmos | Greek Myth Wikia | Fandom
October 29, 2024 - He débuts, with his appearance in around 700 BCE and usually ends at around the 9th Century. He is set to appear in the book "Alternate Realities". Cosmos is a deadly, but good being in Greek Mythology who stives to keep the worlds alive.
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Quora
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Who is The Greek God of The Cosmos, in Greek mythology? 🤔 - Quora
Answer (1 of 3): You might wish to look up the god Phanes, a deity largely worshiped in gnostic pagan movements like the cult of Orpheus. Phanes was seen as being the first principle of existence as it were. Phanes had a heavy influence in the Romanization of Mithra. The Roman Mithraists believ...
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For Egyptian, you'd have several choices. Going from the largest (at least in the Heliopolitian cosmology):

Nuun (Nun) is the cosmic ocean that our universe is a bubble in: https://henadology.wordpress.com/theology/netjeru/nun/

Atum includes the concept of "Completeness". In a sense He/She would be related to the universe we know, and precipitated himself/herself out of the Nuun.

Shu and Tefnut would be next- Shu having a complex set of associations including emptiness and light, and Tefnut with moisture (and another set of associations).

From those two came Geb- associated with Earth, and Nut with sky. The Nuun also passed underneath the Earth.

The above is a gross simplification, especially when you mix in all the other Egyptian creation stories.

Several of the Greek philosophers talked about a spherical Earth: they noticed that you could see stars in the Southern Egyptian sky that were invisible in Greece, the reverse being true for Northern stars in Greece.

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This depends entirely on your stance of if you're asking for a sky god or if you'd prefer only "outer space", so to speak. Given that these are ancient cultures / mythologies we're discussing, it stands to point that perhaps they would have seen the two as synonymous, which was why historically the sky gods were said to be most powerful. For instance, some accounts that I've read in the past read that Zeus became King of the Gods only after he had drawn the lot for the sky, as opposed to either of his brothers (this can also be contested that he became King due to the fact that he was the one who overthrew his father and had to rescue his siblings, which is the most widely accepted version I've ever come across).

Going back the furthest you can in Greek mythology:

  • There will be Chaos, which was accepted as the "oblivion" or the unknown, and the first being to give birth to all others.

  • Some accounts tell of the Titan Queen Eurynome (commonly mistaken with Zeus' third bride, and some accounts have them as one and the same person who was an Oceanid).

  • And of course there is also Ouranos, who is well known as the father of Kronos and the rest of the Titans, and he was depicted as the night sky that hung over the earth, the lover and husband of Gaia.

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Vocal Media
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THE GREEK MYTHOLOGY; The Genesis of Cosmos | Geeks
Uranus, the infinite sky, was the god Gaia imagined in her isolation, whose heavenly embrace would give rise to the heavens themselves. Uranus and Gaia, in a divine union, forged the Titans—the colossal beings who would become the architects of the universe. Among these, Cronus, the youngest, possessed an insatiable thirst for power. In a treacherous act, he usurped his father's dominion, casting Uranus into the depths of the cosmos...
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Paleothea
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Explore the Greek Cosmos and Its Gods! - Paleothea
These are the Olympians: mighty, flawed, dramatized—and our venerated overseers of the cosmos. Living in their world was an unpredictable cocktail of glory, tempest, and, occasionally, an outright scrap, all set against the backdrop of a place where gods and mortals danced in a divine cosmic ballet. In the grand scheme of Greek mythology, the cosmos is a patchwork quilt of drama, intrigue, and celestial addresses.
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Ananke - Wikipedia
September 2, 2025 - Here Prometheus speaks of a secret prophecy, rendered ineluctable by Ananke, that any son born of Zeus and Thetis would depose the god. (In fact, any son of Thetis was destined to be greater than his father.) In the Timaeus, Plato has the character Timaeus (not Socrates) argue that in the creation of the universe, there is a uniting of opposing elements, intellect ('nous') and necessity ('ananke'). Elsewhere, Plato blends abstraction with his own myth making: "For this ordered world (cosmos) is of a mixed birth: it is the offspring of a union of Necessity and Intellect.
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Precept Austin
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World - Kosmos (Greek Word Study) | Precept Austin
The sons of God (the angels) did not shout for joy over chaos, but kosmos when they saw this universe come into existence by the creative fiat of God (Job 38:4, 5, 6, 7)! Mounce writes that... In classical Greek and the LXX, kosmos communicated the idea of order and adornment, and from this it developed into the basic term for the cosmos or the universe.
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JRank
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Hierarchy and Order - Uncreated Cosmos - World, Described, Chaos, and Idea - JRank Articles
So, according to Platonic thought, the order of the Cosmos is similar to the order of the human being. The Cosmos is not created by any god, which means there is both a complex dialectic of Cosmos and Chaos and the idea of hierarchical primacy of the Cosmos over all other things, including ...
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Early Greek cosmology - Wikipedia
3 weeks ago - The generation of the gods quickly gave rise to cosmic struggles that threatened the order of the universe, such as the Titanomachy, or the primordial war between Zeus and the Titans. Eventually, Zeus and the Hundred-Armed drove the Titans from the earth into the netherworld, Tartarus, where they were locked away with a wall and fence with giant bronze doors. A major event during the creation of the cosmos is the separation of heaven and earth.
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Greek Travel Tellers
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The Greek Gods: Full List and Background
With Uranus defeated, Cronus freed his siblings from the dark Tartarus and the Titans became the new Greek gods. They immediately recognized Cronus as their leader and ruler of the cosmos and helped him consolidate his power.
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Cosmos - Wikipedia
September 25, 2025 - Eastern and Western thought differed greatly in their understanding of space and the organization of the cosmos. The Chinese saw the Cosmos as empty, infinite, and intertwined with the Earth. Western ideas, based on the ancient Greeks' understanding of the cosmos, believed in a multi-planar divided cosmos that was finite and filled with air.
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EBSCO
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Cronus and the Birth of the Cosmos | Research Starters | EBSCO Research
At the moment of its creation, the universe is both confused and disordered, a mass of undifferentiated divine matter. It is Cronus and Ananke’s ordering of the universe that initiates the development of the organized cosmos of Greek myth, with Phanes giving power to all the deities to come and passing his scepter on to Zeus, the eventual king of the Olympian gods.
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Historyandmyths
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Chronos — The Primordial Greek God of Time and Cosmic Creation
October 23, 2025 - Chronos, the mysterious primordial Greek god of time — shaping the cosmos, driving creation, and inspiring the idea of Father Time.
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University of Pennsylvania
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Greek & Roman Mythology - Hesiod
Course site for Classical Studies 200, Greek and Roman Mythology, at the University of Pennsylvania
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Greekhistoryhub
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The Fascinating Myths of the Greek Cosmos and Its Creators
They are considered the initial building blocks of creation, each representing a different element or force of nature. Among these deities, Chaos, Gaia, Tartarus, and Eros are some of the most prominent. Chaos: Often described as the void or abyss, Chaos is the formless state preceding the ...
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Olympioi
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Guide to Creation, Creatures and Realms of Greek Mythology
August 28, 2024 - They are called primordial deities, as these early gods and goddesses were the personifications of the very basic aspects of the cosmos. From Chaos emerged Gaia, the goddess of the Earth. Then after Gaia, out of the abyss came Tartarus, who was the personification of the lowest point of the universe. Next was Eros, the Greek God of love, and last was Erebus, the god of darkness, the personification of darkness.
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OpenEdition
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The Cosmos in Ancient Greek Religious Experience. Sacred Space, Memory, and Cognition
February 1, 2024 - The involvement of the cosmos in these festivals enhanced the perception that the correct performance of rituals was able to renew cosmic balance and divine order. 9 Given the significance of maritime affairs in the Mysteries of Samothrace and the role of the Dio (...) 7Chapter Six (“Cosmic Time in Greek Mystery Cults”, p.
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Challix
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Are there any Greek Gods of space?
October 1, 2025 - The answer may come as a surprise to some. While there are several gods and goddesses associated with celestial bodies or events, there is no one single deity in Greek mythology who solely presides over space. Instead, the gods of ancient Greece had domain over specific aspects of the cosmos.