Chaos gods

A chaos deity is a deity or more often a figure or spirit in mythology associated with or being a personification of primordial chaos. The following is a list of chaos deities in various mythologies.

Set spearing the chaos snake Apep.

Africa and the Middle East

Afroasiatic Middle East

Arabian

Egyptian
  • Apep the ultimate evil of Egyptian mythology in snake form
  • Isfet chaos, disorder, and injustice - opposed to Maat
  • Nu (mythology) primordial waters
  • Set (deity) wasn't originally evil but developed into a hated figure thanks to the invading Hyksos who identified him with their chief god, fights Apep.

Hebrew

Mesopotamian

Western Eurasia

Norse-Germanic

Greaco-Roman
  • Chaos (mythology), the "first thing that came into being" according to Hesiod
  • Hydra (mythology)
  • Typhon

Western Asia

Anatolian - Hittite

Hindu-Vedic

Persian Zorostarian
  • Angra Mainyu, Zoroastrian god of evil and opposed to Ahura Mazda, god of good

Manichaeism

  • Prince of Darkness

Asia-Pacific / Oceania

Native Americas

See also
  • God of destruction (disambiguation)
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