The final air was governed by Erebos, and it was considered to be the mists that existed in the underworld.Īether was thought to envelop the moon, sun, stars, clouds, and peaks of the mountains. The air directly below him, dispersed over the Earth, was the domain of Chaos. He represented all of the air at the upper reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere. This means that all of the air between the sky and Earth’s air was considered to literally be Aether.Īether was one of three primordial air gods. Instead, Aether was considered to literally be that element. Gods of the sun were regarded differently from gods of the day.Īs a primordial god, Aether wasn’t depicted as a humanoid personification of an element. In the ancient Greek tradition, day and night were separate from the sun and the moon. Hemera was both Aether’s sister and his wife. In the morning, Hemera would disperse the mists of the night to reveal Aether’s blue ether again. This also blocked Aether’s domain from the reach of the ancient Greeks. At night, Nyx was drawing her veil across this dome to obscure the light. The ancient Greeks believed that the sky was a dome that encased the entirety of the Earth. Nyx, the goddess of night, was the mother of Aether.
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