Category:Primagenera

This category contains all Roman deities considered among the primagenera, which are listed at the bottom of the page.

The primagenera (Greek: protogenoi) referred to the original or primordial deities in Roman mythology. They often represented a a specific force of nature, and had dominion over it.

Primagenera and their personifications

 * Diana (exits, ends, magic, moon)
 * Janus (entrances, beginnings, sun)
 * Ether (upper air, light)
 * Necessitas (necessity)
 * Saturn (time)
 * Erebus (darkness)
 * Amor (procreation)
 * Terra (the Earth)
 * Hydros (Personification of Water)
 * Dies (day)
 * Chaos (the void, creation, destruction, air)
 * Nox (night)
 * Oceanus (river Oceanus, and fresh water)
 * Phanes (procreation, life)-(usually equated with Amor)
 * Pontus (the sea)
 * Tartarus (the Netherworld)
 * Mare (the sea)
 * Thesis (Hydros' consort, repsresents motherly nature of the sea)
 * Natura (nature)
 * Caelus (the sky)