In Greek mythology, Phanes ("light") or Protogonus ("first-born") was the primeval deity of procreation and the generation of new life; his other names included Ericapaeus ("power") and Metis ("thought"). He is often equated with Eros and Mithras and has been depicted as a hermaphroditic deity emerging from a cosmic egg, entwined with a serpent.

Phanes was believed to have been hatched from the World-Egg by Chronos and Aether. He was the ruler of the gods and passed the sceptre of kingship to his daughter Nyx, who later gave it to her son Ouranos.

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