Aithér

In Greek mythology, Aithér is the god of eternal light. The name Aithér is sometimes even used to refer to the sky or the universe itself.

Hesiod's poem Theogonia ("On the Origin of the Gods" or also "The Birth of the Gods") describes the origin of Aithereus as follows: "In truth at first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundation of all the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus in the depth of the wide-pathed Earth, and Eros, fairest among the deathless gods, who unnerves the limbs and overcomes the mind and wise counsels of all gods and all men within them. From Chaos came forth Erebus and black Night; but of Night were born Aether and Day, whom she conceived and bore from union in love with Erebus."

The sister of Aithér was Hémerá (Den). Aithér symbolizes the purest air in which the gods themselves live. Its opposite is "aér", which is the air in which mankind lives.

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