Tartarus (primordial deity)

In Greek mythology, Tartarus (Greek: Ταρταρος, Tartaros) was the primordial deity of the Tartarean pit in the Underworld. In Theogony, Hesiod writes how Tartarus was the third being to come into creation, only after Chaos and Gaea. Tartarus was the father of Typhon by Gaea. However, Hyginus writes that Tartarus was the son of Aether and Gaea.