EREBOS

Erebos was the Protogenos of darkness, consort of Nyx, whose dark mists enveloped the edges of the world, and filled the deep hollows of the earth. His wife Nyx drew these mists across the heavens to bring night to the world, while his daughter Hemera scattered them bringing day : one blocking out the light of Aither and the other revealing it. The bright upper air was regarded as the source of day in the ancient cosmogonies rather than the sun.