entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note ENT_EREBUS,SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,scholarly attestation,Library 1.1.1; primordial darkness; coupled with Nyx to produce Aether and Hemera ENT_EREBUS,SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY,direct attestation,"Theogony 123: from Chaos came Erebus and dark Night (Nyx); from Erebus and Night came Aether and Hemera; Hesiod establishes Erebus as a primordial entity, the primordial darkness preceding light, and the parent of Aether and Day alongside Nyx" ENT_EREBUS,SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY,direct attestation,Erebus (the deep darkness) is named in the Odyssey as the deep darkness of the underworld through which the dead travel; Odysseus sacrifices at the entrance to Erebus (Od. XI.37) ENT_EREBUS,SRC_THEOI_GODS,index attestation,Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity. ENT_EREBUS,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation,"Attested in Theoi Project index (Greek gods, spirits, heroes in classical literature)."