Eros is a Demon in Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation.
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Eros[a] is the Greek god and personification of erotic love, first mentioned in Hesiod's Theogony as a primordial deity.[1] Eros was later more popularly portrayed as a son of Aphrodite, and he was said to fire arrows at people that caused them to fall in love. Eros was later equated with the Roman god Cupid.
In the Orphic cult, Eros, who was there also named Protogonos (First born) and Phanes, was born from a cosmic egg at the beginning of everything. He created the world, the cosmos, the sun and the moon, and was the first king of the cosmos, and father of Uranus. He gave his Scepter to Nyx who then gave it to Uranus, establishing the succession of Kings of Gods. Him and the cosmos he created were later eaten, absorbed, and regurgitated by Zeus, who laid his claim as ruler of the cosmos in the process.[2][3]
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Eros' designs in Giten Megami Tensei resembles Classical depictions of Eros as a winged child or youth.
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Nomenclature
Names in Other Languages
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エロス Erosu |
Eros
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Sprite from the
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Side sprite from the Windows version of Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation
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Back sprite from the [Windows version of Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation
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Attack sprite from the Windows version of Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation
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Hurt sprite from the Windows version of Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation
References
- ↑ "First there was Chaos, then broad-chested Gaia, the steadfast seat of all immortals who live upon the snowy peaks of Olympus, then murky Tartarus in the depths of the wide earth, and Eros, most beautiful of the immortal gods, who weakens the limbs and overwhelms the minds and wise counsel in the breasts of all gods and humans." Theogony, Hesiod. 7. Translation by Michael Huemann.
- ↑ "Orphism preached the simple idea that the world was born from an egg. This primordial egg hatched out the first god, Eros, who was later named Protogonos and Phanes and who was said to be both male and female. He then created the world." "Introduction by Translator", The Orphic Hymns. Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. English. Translation by Apostolos Athanassakis.
- ↑ "In the so-called Orphic Rhapsodies, composed around the beginning of either first century BC or the
Christian era, this figure is the son of the ether and the first king of the cosmos. Protogonos developed in a shining egg made from, or laid in, Ether by unaging Time, the primordial being that had engendered ether and immense Chaos covered with Night ὃςαἰθέραἔκθορεπρῶτος in 8 can describe Protogonos bursting out of the ether-egg in which he developed or his springing out of the ether in which this egg had been laid. All became suffused with radiance when he appeared and he carried the seed of the gods. With Night he fathered Uranus and Ge among other gods, created the Sun and the Moon and the cosmos for gods and humans to live in. He gave his scepter to Night voluntarily who then gave it to her son, Uranus. The succession of divine rulers then proceeds as in Hesiod’s Theogony. When Zeus castrated and dethroned Cronus after Night told. him in her cave that he is destined to be the fifth king of the gods and gave him certain directions of cosmogonic import, he swallowed Protogonos at Night’s behest and absorbed the entire cosmic order Protogonos had produced. He then regurgitated everything and thus generated the entire furniture of the present cosmos, a plethora of gods and goddesses included, over which he rules" Derveni papyrus. Published by Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki. English. Page 24. Translation by George M. Parássoglou and Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou.
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Sprite from the PC-98 version of Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation
Sprite from the Windows version of Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation
Side sprite from the Windows version of Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation
Back sprite from the [Windows version of Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation
Attack sprite from the Windows version of Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation
Hurt sprite from the Windows version of Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Revelation
