Os gregos antigos tinham duas palavras para o tempo: chronos e kairos.

Enquanto chronos refere-se ao tempo cronolgico, ou sequencial, que pode ser medido, kairos refere-se a um momento indeterminado no tempo, em que algo especial acontece, e m Teologia, "o tempo de Deus". http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronos Na mitologia grega, Kairos(?a????, o momento certo ou oportuno ) filho de Chronos, o deus do tempo e das estaes. Ao tempo existencial os gregos denominavam Kairos e ac reditavam nele para enfrentar ao cruel tirano Chronos. Na filosofia grega e roma na a experincia do momento oportuno. Os pitagricos lhe chamavam Oportunidade. Kair os o tempo em potencial, tempo eterno, enquanto que Chronos a durao de um moviment o, uma criao. http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos Chronos Not to be confused with Cronus, a Titan. For other uses, see Chronos (disambigua tion) In Greek mythology, chronos (Ancient Greek: ??????) in pre-Socratic philosophica l works is said to be the personification of time. His name in Modern Greek also means "year" and is alternatively spelled Chronus (Latin spelling). Chronos was imagined as an incorporeal god. Serpentine in form, with three heads t hat of a man, a bull, and a lion. He and his consort, serpentine Ananke (Inevita bility), circled the primal world-egg in their coils and split it apart to form the ordered universe of earth, sea and sky. He is not to be confused with the Ti tan Cronus. Chronos is usually portrayed through an old, wise man with a long, gray beard, s uch as "Father Time". Some of the current English words whose etymological root is khronos/chronos include chronology, chronometer, chronic, anachronism, and ch ronicle. [edit] Mythical cosmogonies In the Orphic cosmogony the unageing Chronos produced Aither and Chaos, and made a silvery egg in the divine Aither. It produced the bisexual god Phanes, who ga ve birth to the first generation of gods and is the ultimate creator of the cosm os. Pherecydes of Syros in his lost Heptamychos (the seven recesses), around 6th cen tury BC, claimed that there were three eternal principles: Chronos, Zas (Zeus) a nd Chthonie (the chthonic). The semen of Chronos was placed in the recesses and produced the first generation of gods.[1] [edit] References ^ G.S.Kirk,J.E.Raven and M.Schofield (2003). The Presocratic Philosophers. Cambr idge University Press. pp. 24, 56. http://www.books.google.com/books?id=kFpd86J8 PLsC&printsec. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronos Kairos For the Greek personification of opportunity, see Caerus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kairos Palestinian Christian leaders say the situation in occupied Palestine has reache d "the moment of truth," or Kairos as the concept is called in Christian theolog

ical lexicon. http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1260257918309&pagen ame=Zone-English-News/NWELayoutpp. 24, 56. http://www.books.google.com/books?id= kFpd86J8PLsC&printsec. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronos Kairos For the Greek personificat