Caligo (ablative form: Caligine) (meaning 'darkness', 'dark fog', or 'mist') was the Roman Primordial Goddess of the Primordial Mist. Her Greek equivalent seems to be Achlys
She created Chaos out from her primordial mists and married him, with him she birthed Nox, Erebus, Dies, and Ether.
The only source for this figure is Hyginus' Fabulae.
Mythology[]
The first-century BC Roman mythographer Hyginus, in the Preface of his Fabulae, has Caligo 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 Aether (Ether), 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 Caligo (was born) Chaos; from Chaos and Caligo, Night, Day, Erebus, Aether." Caligo in Latin is "Darkness" or "Mist" in English.