Caligine or Caligo (meaning 'dark fog' or 'mist') was the Roman Primordial Goddess of the Primordial Mist. Her Greek equivalent is Achlys
She created Chaos out from her primordial mists and married him, with him she birthed Nox, Erebus, Dies, and Aether.
The only source for this figure is Hyginus' Fabulae.
Mythology[]
The Roman counterpart to Achlys seems to have been Caligine. The first-century BC Roman mythographer Hyginus, in the Preface of his Fabulae, has Caligine being the mother of Chaos (for Hesiod the first being who existed), and, with her own son Chaos, was the mother of Night (Nox), Day (Dies), Darkness (Erebus) and Ether (Aether), possibly drawing on an otherwise unknown Greek cosmological myth.
Fabulae[]
| “ | Ex Caligine Chaos: ex Chao et Caligine Nox Dies Erebus Aether. | ” |
–Fabulae, Hyginus | ||
The original Latin above translates into English as: "From Caligine (was born) Chaos; from Chaos and Caligine, Night, Day, Erebus, Aether." Caligine in Latin is Mist in English.