Caligo
deity sky Roman single tradition · 1
A Roman deity whose name means 'dark fog', serving as the Roman counterpart to the Greek Achlys. According to the first-century BC mythographer Hyginus, Caligo was the mother of Chaos and, with Chaos, mother of Night, Day, Darkness, and Ether. This cosmological role may draw on an otherwise unknown Greek myth.
When
- First attested
- 100 BCE
- Attested period
- -100 – -100
- Historical notes
- Attested in Hyginus's Fabulae, a first-century BC Roman mythographic work.
Relationships
Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“The first-century BC Roman mythographer Hyginus, in the Preface of his Fabulae, has Caligo being the mother of Chaos (for Hesiod the first being who existed), and, with Chaos, was the mother of Night (Nox), Day (Dies), Darkness (Erebus) and Ether (Aether)”
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