![]() The whole world plunged into darkness, because Nyx came and drove goddess Hemera (the light) away. He wanted to drive his father's chariot, but he couldn't maintain a steady grip and he fell. Philostratus describes a painting representing the fall of Phaeton, Helios' son. In fact, Memnon was the son of Eos, so Philostratus thought the two goddesses were one and the same. She is the daughter of Nyx and Erebus (Night and Darkness) and the sister, and in some myths lover, of Aether (light). Philostratus mentions the statue of Memnon, in Aethiopia, which would greet Hemera, his mother, in the morning, and would mourn her departure in the evening. Hemera, the primordial goddess of the Day. Later she was identified with Eos, and Pausanias describes images of Eos, but he mistakenly identifies her as Hemera. So, while one of them was travelling above the earth, the other one was at home, waiting for her turn. (In the early cosmogony, light and darkness were divine substances and they were not caused by the presence or absence of the sun).īoth goddess Hemera and Nyx lived in Tartarus, but they only briefly met twice a day, when one of them was leaving, while the other one was coming back home. In the morning, Hemera would come and draw it back, dispersing the darkness and allowing light to reach the earth. Nyx would bring night on earth, by drawing a veil of darkness between the light of the upper atmosphere and the normal air that people on Earth breathed. Pseudo-Hyginus says she was a daughter of Chaos and a sister of Nox (Night), not her daughter. She was one of the daughters of Erebus and Nyx and, as such, the sister of Aether (the Atmosphere), whom she later married. She represented the personification of the day/daylight. The Greek goddess Hemera was one of the Protogenoi, i.e. ![]()
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