Pontus
Generation III · The Sea · The Primordials
Pontus is the barren salt sea in person, whom Gaia produced entirely on her own before any marriage existed. He went on to head the old marine dynasty: with Gaia he fathered truthful Nereus, the Old Man of the Sea, along with Thaumas, Phorcys, Ceto, and Eurybia. Hesiod is explicit that Gaia bore Pontus alone, without a father or any union of love.
One of 22 people of The Primordials in this archive. Chaos and the first powers, born before the gods.
Line of descent: Chaos → Gaia → Pontus.
Parents
Siblings
- Arges (half)
- Briareus (half)
- Brontes (half)
- Ceto (half)
- Coeus (half)
- Crius (half)
- Cronus (half)
- Eurybia (half)
- Hyperion (half)
- Iapetus (half)
- Mnemosyne (half)
- Nereus (half)
- Oceanus (half)
- Phoebe (half)
- Phorcys (half)
- Rhea (half)
- Steropes (half)
- Tethys (half)
- Thaumas (half)
- Theia (half)
- Themis (half)
- Typhon (half)
- Uranus
Partners
- Married Gaia