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Phanes

Phanes was the Greek primordial sun god; the first god to emerge from the cosmic egg engendered by Cronus, he personifies light emerging from chaos. According to another tradition his daughter is Nyx, the night. A.G.H.

Source:

Jordan, Michael, Encyclopedia of Gods, New York, Facts On File, Inc. 1993, p. 204