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Our primary modern sources for the ancient Greek cosmology is Hesiod's Theogony. When it was due to be day again, Nyx would head home to Tartarus and their daughter Hemera, the Day, would leave, scattering Erebus and allowing Aether’s blue body to be seen again. When the day was due to be over, Nyx would leave Tartarus and draw her husband Erebus’ dark body over the Aether, obscuring the brilliant blue light from mortal eyes and bringing about the night time. The light was instead said to come from Aether, the blue pure air of the heavens. In the ancient Greek poems, the sun was not credited with providing light, but instead was just said to rule over the day time. ActivityĮrebus’ dark misty body filled the deep, dark places underground, and encircled the world. Erebus was the primordial god of darkness and the consort of his sister Nyx, the Night.Īs well as being the name of the primordial god, Erebus was also used in ancient Greek literature to describe the dark gloomy air that was breathed in the underworld, the region of the underworld that the dead had to pass through on their way to Hades, the Land of the Dead, or as a synonym for Tartarus, the Great Pit of the Underworld, itself.