Night and her children
In Hesiod’s Theogony, Night bears Sleep, Death and the tribe of dreams with no father named. Morpheus is the exception: Sleep’s son rather than Night’s, and first named in surviving Latin, by Ovid — a later arrival to an older family.
The ferryman, the guide, and the road below
Four met on the way down: the silent oar, the god who escorts souls, the goddess of the three-way crossing, and the queen who goes and returns — a third of the year below in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, half of it in later tellings.
Time, memory, and return
Kronos the Titan was fused with Chronos, time itself, only by later writers — Hesiod’s Kronos is no such god. Mnemosyne is the memory the Muses are born from. Beside them the moon’s thinning and filling, the serpent that eats its own tail, and the firebird Herodotus says the priests at Heliopolis described to him.
