Thesis (mythology)

THESIS was the primordial goddess of creation, a divinity related to Physis (Mother Nature). She occurs in the Orphic Theogonies as the first being to emerge at creation alongside Hydros (the Primordial Waters) and Mud. Thesis was sometimes portrayed as the female aspect of the first-born, bi-gendered god Phanes (Life).

Thesis also appears in myth in the guise of Metis, the creator-goddess devoured by Zeus, and Tethys the nurse, mother of all creation. However, in extant literature, Metis and Tethys are only distantly related to the cosmic creator-goddess described in Alcman's Theogony and by the Orphics.