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To cut a long story short, in the beginning there was not only Chaos but also Gaia (Mother Earth), Tartarus (Ineffably Deep Abyss), and Eros (who in those times resembled rather Will To Procreate than Romantic Love). Then, Gaia gave birth, among other creatures, to Ouranos (Heaven) and Pontus (Sea), both of whom later [[Squick|fathered on her]] many children. This strange family had three main branches:
 
'''1)'''# Descendants of Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night). Those are a mixed bunch: Erebus and Nyx produced Aither (Light) and Hemera (Day). Nyx also had a few children all by herself. They were mainly personifications of depressing concepts like Madness or Strife, but among them were also the Fates, Death, Sleep, Dreams and Sex.
'''2)'''# Children of Pontus (with or without Gaia as a mother). Mainly monsters (with Cerberus, Chimaira and Sphinx among them) and indistinguishable water nymphs, but also [[Everything's Better with Rainbows|Iris]]. The latter was probably the family's [[White Sheep]], her own sisters being Harpies.▼
 
'''3)'''# Children of Ouranos and Gaia. Cyclopes, who had each only one eye, Hekatoncheires, who had each as many as one hundred hands, and twelve Titans, whose children were later to win the great divine battle for power. Among the descendants of the Titans were the [[Classical Mythology/Characters|Olympians]], rivers, celestial bodies, some personifications, three Fates, and, again, a bunch of indistinguishable water nymphs.▼
▲'''2)''' Children of Pontus (with or without Gaia as a mother). Mainly monsters (with Cerberus, Chimaira and Sphinx among them) and indistinguishable water nymphs, but also [[Everything's Better with Rainbows|Iris]]. The latter was probably the family's [[White Sheep]], her own sisters being Harpies.
 
▲'''3)''' Children of Ouranos and Gaia. Cyclopes, who had each only one eye, Hekatoncheires, who had each as many as one hundred hands, and twelve Titans, whose children were later to win the great divine battle for power. Among the descendants of the Titans were the [[Classical Mythology/Characters|Olympians]], rivers, celestial bodies, some personifications, three Fates, and, again, a bunch of indistinguishable water nymphs.
 
Yes, the Fates appear there twice, and yes, they are the same Fates, because their names are identical in both cases. Two identical sets of Fates look so uncanny that scholars usually believe one of them to be an interpolation.
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