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Aether

 

          Aether was one of the primordial deities in Greek mythology, the son of the primordial deities Erebus (darkness) and Nyx (night), or according to Orphic Hymns, Chronos (time) and Ananke (necessity). He was the personification of the upper air that only gods breathe, as opposed to the normal air breathed by mortals. He was the brother of Hemera (day), and according to some sources, he fathered Gaea (earth), Thalassa (sea) and Uranus (heavens)

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