Aether

The upper air or sky. Aether was the personification of the upper sky. With his sister Hemera (Day), they were the offspring of Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night).

Aether was probably the father of Uranus by Gaea.

See Creation, Theogony of Hesiod.

According to the Orphic Creation Myth, Aether was born at the same time as Chaos and Erebus, from Chronus (Time) and Adrasteia (Necessity). In the Orphic myth, Aether was seen as a female being. Aether together with her father Chronus formed and produced the Cosmic Egg (World Egg). Within the World Egg were Phanes or Protogonus, the first god and supreme ruler as well as the Creator god.