Phanes

I called him ΦΑΝΗΣ Phanes, because he is the newly appearing God... In the Orphic theogony... Phanes, the first of the Gods, appears... he is imagined as marvelously beautiful, a figure of shining light, with golden wings on his shoulders, four eyes, and the heads of various animals. He is of both sexes

Jung explicitly names an inner visionary figure 'Phanes' as the newly appearing God, identifying it with the androgynous, luminous first-born of Orphic cosmogony and connecting it to libido as creative force in his earlier work.

Jung, Carl Gustav, The Red Book: Liber Novus, 2009thesis

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Known as Aion, he is 'the Lord of Ages'; and as Phanes, 'the Shining One.' Iconographically interesting is the Phanes-Pan

Campbell reads the iconography of Phanes/Aion as the serpent-wrapped, winged deity bursting from the cosmic egg, equating him with the lord of eternal time and 'the Shining One' of Orphic theology.

Campbell, Joseph, The Mythic Image, 1974thesis

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daughters of the double-sexed Father Phanes... Phanes in his cave was the first king. He laid the sceptre in the hand of Night. From her it passed to Ouranos, from Ouranos to Kronos, from Kronos to Zeus, who was the fifth to rule the world.

Kerényi establishes Phanes as the androgynous primordial ruler whose transmission of cosmic sovereignty initiates the entire Orphic succession of divine reigns.

Kerényi, Karl, The Gods of the Greeks, 1951thesis

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in the first version Zeus swallows Phanes, in the second the heart of Zagreus. Both mean the same thing... the devouring of Phanes to the later... The personality of Φαvης cannot have been unknown even to the older stratum of Orphic poetry.

Rohde analyzes the parallel Orphic myths of Zeus swallowing Phanes and the heart of Zagreus as functionally equivalent acts, situating Phanes within the stratified development of Orphic theogonic literature.

Rohde, Erwin, Psyche: The Cult of Souls and the Belief in Immortality among the Greeks, 1894thesis

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night with her dark wings gave birth to a wind egg. From it sprang in the course of time the God Eros, the one who arouses desire and who has golden wings on his back.

Von Franz traces the Orphic cosmogonic egg-motif from which the golden-winged first god (identified with Phanes-Eros) is born, connecting this to the wider psychological symbolism of creation from primordial darkness.

von Franz, Marie-Louise, Creation Myths, 1995supporting

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NIGHT, THE EGG

Kerényi introduces the Orphic cosmogonic sequence of Night and the Egg as the mythological context from which Phanes emerges as the first divine being.

Kerényi, Karl, The Gods of the Greeks, 1951supporting

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Phanes, 130. Pheidias, 157, 158, 247. Pherecydes, 16, 130, 204-205, 382.

Vernant's index registers Phanes as a concept treated in connection with Pherecydes and the pre-Socratic cosmogonic tradition, indicating its position within broader Greek mythological thought.

Vernant, Jean-Pierre, Myth and Thought Among the Greeks, 1983aside

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Orphic egg, 42, 45, 54, 149, 217, 224, 328

Neumann's index clusters the Orphic egg with numerically prominent passages on the Great Mother archetype, implicitly situating the Phanes-birth motif within the symbolic complex of feminine cosmic containment.

Neumann, Erich, The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype, 1955aside

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