The Primordial Gods of Ancient Greece were the first deities, the ancestors of all the Gods. From Chaos arose Ananke, Chronos, Gaia, Tartarus, Aether, Erebus and Nyx.
Ananke is the goddess of fate and Chronos, her consort, the god of time. Tartarus was the god who ruled the infamous pit of the same name in the depths of the underworld. Aether was the god of the upper air, the fifth element. Erebus was the embodiment of darkness and his consort, Nyx, the goddess of night.
But perhaps the most important of the primordial gods was Gaia, goddess of the earth. Alone, she created Pontus, god of the world ocean, and Ouranos, god of the sky. Ouranos become her husband and had their children, the Hundred-Handed Ones, the Cyclopes and the Titans, and well the rest is history. Gaia and Ouranos are the grandparents of the Olympian gods and they and the primordial gods were always feared and respected by the other gods.
I'll give more information on each of the primordial gods in their own posts.
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