n.
In Greek cosmology, either the primeval emptiness before things came into being or the abyss of Tartarus, the underworld.
In Hesiod 's Theogony , there was first Chaos, then Gaea and Eros . The offspring of Chaos were Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night). Ovid gave Chaos its modern meaning: the original formless and disordered mass from which the ordered universe is created. The early church fathers applied this interpretation to the creation story in Genesis .