deities were born, including the parents of Aether: the darkness and the night, the god Erebus and the goddess Nyx. These first gods are called “primordial gods,” because these first deities came from an empty space. Gods of the sun were regarded differently from gods of the day.Īether is one of the very first gods of the Ancient Greek Mythology. 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. He also far surpass his younger brothers Thanatos and Hypnos. This means that all of the air between the sky and Earth's air was considered to literally be Aether.Īether as a Primordial can easily defeat every Olympian with no issue including Zeus. Instead, Aether was considered to literally be that element. Unlike his younger siblings including Thanatos and Hypnos, Aether and his sister Hemera are Primordials Deities as they were born before Creation while the rest were born after as second generation Primordials.Īs a primordial god, Aether wasn't depicted as a humanoid personification of an element. Aether and the other primordial gods were loved and honored by ancient humankind, but there is no current knowledge or proof that there ever were any temples dedicated to their service or rituals done in their honor. Aether also had powers to control the sun, the moon, the stars, and the clouds, as well. With his presence, he was able to keep both this darkness and the lord of it away from mortals and their world. Air on the earth was governed by Zeus and the Anemoi, but all of the air above this was Aether's domain.Īether also served as a protector, to separate humans and earthly beings from Tartarus, the god of the lowest and deepest parts of Hades, the Underworld. Aether's mists were able to fill the space between the transparent mists on the ground and the solid dome that made up the sky. He was also the god of the sky, which the ancient Greeks considered to be “blue ether” that represented the heavens. This breath of gods, or the upper air, is the realm of Aether, which he is the ruler of, according to the mythological story. Ancient Greeks believed that there are three different types of air to breathe, each used by different beings: one, the lowest type of air was breathed by all underworldly creatures, one was breathed by all regular humans, and another, the third and the highest air was breathed by all the gods and goddesses. Aether is one of the only Greek deities who is known to change sex constantly.Īether is the god of the upper air, the purest, finest air that the gods' breathe. He is the personification of the "upper sky", and embodies the pure upper air that the gods breathe, as opposed to the normal air breathed by mortals (mainly Humans).
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