Phanes was depicted as a sexless god or a god with both sexes
(androgynous, double-sexed being).
Also popularly known by another name, Protogonus or Protogonos ( "First-born shinning one" wink
Protogonus have three different names, his other names were Ericapaeus (Power) and Metis (Thought).
These three different names represent the three different aspects of Protogonus' powers.
Protogenos was the primal generator of life; he is Radiance, the first light to emerge from Chaos.
Phanes was seen a sun god or the god of light and portrayed as a beautiful golden-winged hermaphroditic deity wrapped in a serpent's coils.
The poets describe him as an incorporeal being invisible even through the eyes of the gods--invisible but radiating pure light.
In the beginning was NIGHT (NIX), a bird with black wings, a goddess of whom even Zeus stands in awe, “Ancient Night conceived of the Wind and laid her silver egg (Some say it was the MOON) in the gigantic lap of Darkness.
From the Egg sprang the son of the rushing Wind, a god with golden wings.
He is called EROS, the god of love.” And it was Eros who set the universe in motion. Eros is the Principle of relatedness.
He is double-sexed, a woman before and a man behind. He has four eyes, four horns and golden wings; he bellows like a serpent or bleats like a ram.
He is called PROTOGONOS PHAETON, the “firstborn shining one,” the firstborn of all the gods. He is also called PHANES.
As Phanes he is “he who appears” and “he who reveals.”
When he was first born of the egg, he “revealed and brought into the light everything that had previously lain hidden in the silver egg—in other words, the whole world.” Up above was a void, the Sky. Down below was the Rest.”
Phanes, the golden-winged god of light and love.
Phanes means "I bring to light" or "he who reveals".
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and we have a feeling that it will be a Boy, if so we have settled on Mikail Tirrell after my adopted father and step-father smile a Girl we have chosen Difreya with little idea for a middle name atm. >.< LOL