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	Aether - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		Among these characteristics, the aether had a non-material property, was "less than the vehicle of visible light", and was responsible for "generating metals" along with fostering the development of all bodies.
		Robert Fudd stated that the aether was of the character that it was "subtler than light".
		The luminiferous aether of the more well known 19th century invocation was a concept held by some physicists and was an attempt to reconcile electromagnetic theory and Newtonian physics.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Aether (543 words)

	Encyclopedia: Erebus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Greek mythology, Erebus, or Érebos was a primordial god, personification of darkness, offspring of Chaos alone.
		He was brother of Nyx and father of Aether by himself and, with Nyx, Hemera, Moros, Charon, Eros and the Keres.
		In Greek mythology, Hemera was a primordial goddess, born of Erebus.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Erebus (1255 words)

	Primeval Deities
		According to the Orphic myth, Erebus was born with Chaos and Aether.
		Aether was probably the father of Uranus by Gaea.
		Uranus was the son of Gaea and possibly of Aether.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/primeval.html (4335 words)

	Aether - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aether (mythology) the personification of the "upper sky", space and heaven, in Greek mythology
		Luminiferous aether, in early physics considered to be the medium through which light propagates
		Aether, a fictional special skill in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance that Ike can acquire by using the Occult scroll.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aether (202 words)

	Aether (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aether ("upper air"), in Greek mythology, was the personification of the "upper sky", space and heaven.
		He is the pure, upper air that the gods breathe, as opposed to "aer", which mortals breathed.
		The aether was also known as Zeus' defensive wall; the bound that locked Tartaros from the cosmos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aether_(mythology) (131 words)

	Mythology List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Aether - is the personification of the lighter upper sky.
		In Greek mythology, the name is specifically given to a river of Hades, hence used to designate the underworld generally.
		In Roman mythology, Elysium was a part of the underworld and a place of reward for the virtuous dead.
	members.aol.com /JohnnyZ42/mythology.html (9078 words)

	Aether
		The personification of the pure upper air in which the gods reside, in contrary to the 'aer', the lower air which mortals breathe.
		In the early Greek cosmologies, Aether is the son of Erebus and Nyx, and the brother of Hemera.
		Article "Aether" created on 03 March 1997; last modified on 02 April 1999 (Revision 2).
	www.pantheon.org /articles/a/aether.html (84 words)

	NATURAL PERSONIFICATIONS, Greek Mythology Link.
		Aether is the Upper Sky, offspring of Erebus (Darkness of the Underworld) and Nyx (Night), or of Chaos, or of Chronos (Time), who some say is the same as Cronos.
		From the union of Hemera and Aether, some say, Gaia (Earth), Uranus (Sky), and Pontus (Sea) were born.
		Pontus is the Sea, born either of Gaia, or of Aether and Hemera.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Sidereal.html (348 words)

	Wikinfo \| Aether
		The term aether is used to describe a hypothetical non material substance that remains even when space is devoid of all matter.
		In physics and philosophy the term aether is used to describe a hypothetical substance that fills all of space.
		Aether was also called "Quintessence." Oliver Nicholson points out that the older concept the aether (in contrast to the more well known luminiferous aether of the 19th century) had three properties.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Aether (676 words)

	Minor Greek Gods and Goddesses - Crystalinks
		Asclepius was the god of medicine and healing in ancient Greek mythology, according to which he was born a mortal but was given immortality as the constellation Ophiuchus after his death.
		Dione in Greek mythology is a vague goddess presence who has her most concrete form in Book V of Homer's Iliad as the mother of Aphrodite: Aphrodite journeys to Dione's side after she has been wounded in battle while protecting her favorite son Aeneas.
		In Greek mythology, Erebus, or Erebos was a primordial god, personification of darkness, offspring of Chaos alone.
	www.crystalinks.com /greekgods2.html (3788 words)

	Nyx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Greek mythology, Nyx was the primordial goddess of the night.
		In Hesiod's Theogony, Night is born of Chaos; her offspring are many, and telling.
		With her brother Erebus, Night gives birth to Aether ("atmosphere") and Hemera ("day").
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Nyx (455 words)

	Wikinfo \| Gaia (mythology) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Behind particular aspects of the three-fold goddess, stands the pre-Indo-European Great Mother, a nurturing goddess of death and birth, who was venerated from Neolithic times in the ancient Near East and the Aegean cultural sphere, as far as Malta and the Etruscan lands.
		Echoes of Gaia's power lingered into the mythology of classical Greece, where her roles were divided among Zeus' consort Hera, Apollo's twin and consort Artemis, and Athena.
		She was the daughter of Chaos, or according to another version Aether and Hemera, and the mother of Uranus (also her husband), Ourea and Pontus.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Gaia_(mythology) (883 words)

	Reassembling of Tiamat
		The purpose of this rite is to reassemble Tiamat by a symbolic intermingling/ unifying of all the elements.
		While the elements are becoming themselves, the M.O. is anti-concentrating itself upon becoming Aether, the so-called 5th element (or non-element or all-element as the case may be).
		When a proper state of gnosis is attained by Aether, it proceeds to pour the carbonated water into the metal bowl.
	www.autonomatrix.org /guild/corpus/tiamat.htm (669 words)

	A_2
		By tracing the mythology of Egypt to where it appears hundreds of years later in Greece, it is indicative of the migrations of those people who were carried the myth.
		In Greek mythology, Rhea had to hide her son Zeus from Cronus because he was devouring his own children, so she carried her baby to the Island of Crete.
		This is also reflected in Greek Mythology when it says that the gods were losing their "divinity" and becoming faint and weak because they were "blending" with the mortals.
	www.libertynation.org /A_2.html (2536 words)

	Cronos, Greek Mythology Link.
		He was the son of Gaia (Earth) or, as others say, the son of Aether (the Upper Sky) and Hemera (Day).
		Chronos is said to be the father of the HORAE, of Aether and Eros.
		Chronos appears as father of Aether (the upper sky) and Eros in the Argonautica Orphica.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Cronos.html (1641 words)

	Aether: Links
		Aelfar: As with the Aesir, Najada, and Rusalki, the Aelfar were a "new race" located somewhere to the north of Aether's "known lands." They were similar to Sylvans, but with a distinctly early British/Welsh feel, and they were concocted by Herne, with a web-design by Selene.
		Aether - The Legacy: Aether's closing didn't stop some players from continuing out their saga, and this website is a collection of art, casting calls, and even a "tour guide" for other spots in the Empyre.
		Eternity MUSH: A spin-off game that was created after Aether closed down, when a number of Sylvan players decided to tweak the theme a bit, so that they could continue playing the characters they knew and loved.
	aether.mux.net /oldsite/links.html (1349 words)

	EREBUS - LoveToKnow Article on EREBUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		, in Greek mythology, son (according to Hesiod, Theog.
		123) of Chaos, and father of Aether (upper air) and Hemera (day) by his sister Nyx (night).
		The word, which signifies darkness, is in Homer the gloomy subterranean region through which the departed shades pass into Hades.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /E/ER/EREBUS.htm (95 words)

	Latin 1 - Mythology - Underworld - Erebus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In the earliest of time, Erebus and Night (Nyx) dwelled in love, and Day (Hermera) and Aether (light, or the pure air) were born from them.
		Persephone was there when Hades first abducted her and hid her from the sight of her mother, Demeter.
		It was often stated that Erebus was the first place that all men go to when they die.
	www.dl.ket.org /latin1/mythology/1deities/underworld/erebus.htm (115 words)

	- -:[LoreWeaver]:- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Aether (derived from Aethein: to kindle, burn) A primal being, the child of Erebus and Nyx; He represents the realm of Upper Air.
		Erebus (darkness) A Primal being, child of Chaos, by Nyx father of the Hesperides and of Aether.
		Transformed into a tightly-knit group of stars to evade capture by the Huntsman Orion, or, in a differing tradition, because of the despair they felt when their father was condemned to bear eternally aloft the Earth: Alcyone, Asterope, Celaeno, Elektra, Maia, Merope, Taygete.
	r4bid.net /LoreWeaver/Arcana/Pan_Greek.html (4532 words)

	Sanguinus Curae: Resource Site for Vampire: the Masquerade
		The persona of Nyx that figures prominently in the Gorgon history may be the Crone Zilla told of in Cainite history, and is certainly attributed to be the same persona worshipped as a goddess of night in Greek mythology.
		The childe of Aether was Pontus the wanderer, who came to be seen by the Greeks as the personification of the sea.
		The childe of Pontus was Ceto, said to be the mother of monsters and the personification of the dangers of the sea.
	www.sanguinus.com /cl0045.shtml (1269 words)

	Ancient Mythology - Jason Gallicchio
		Zeus and his brothers fought against the Titans and confined them to Tartarus (the darkest place in the underworld for the worst sinners).
		Each had her separate duty to perform: Clotho spun the thread of life; Lachesis fixed the length of the thread as she held it; and Atropos cut the thread with her shears when the span of life was done.
		In Roman mythology, the Fates were also known as the Parcae.
	frank.harvard.edu /~jason/mythology.html (3245 words)

	Characters of Greek Mythology - Creation - Children of Chaos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Then from Night and Death, Love, or Eros, and Aether, or "upper air", was born, and that's when things started to turn around, bringing beauty and order, as Love created Light and Day.
		Gaea was also known as a Goddess of Death because, like the earth, she called all her creatures back to her.
		Characters of Greek Mythology was established in June 1998 by Tonya James
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/5545/creation-chaos.html (558 words)

	AETHER : The deity from Greek Mythology
		AETHER floats above AER and is illuminated with Heavenly light.
		Attempts to discover traces of the aether on Earth were carried out by Michelson and Morley in a famous experiment of 1887.
		This non-result led directly to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, but dashed their hopes of selling bottled aether to the physics community.
	www.godchecker.com /pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=AETHER (199 words)

	Orph_Theog.html
		In Aether, Chronus fashioned an egg that split in two; and from this appeared the firstborn of all the gods, Phanes, the creator of everything, called by many names, among them Eros." He was a bisexual deity, with gleaming golden wings and four eyes, described as possessing the appearance of various animals.
		This term literally means "growing together," and in context of religion and mythology it describes the harmonizing of different cults and their myths into some sort of unity
		The Argonauts were said to have been initiated, and there are innumerable records of actual initiations in the Greek and Roman world right down until the end of the fourth century.
	www.hfac.uh.edu /mcl/classics/Orpheus/Orph_Theog.html (1747 words)

	Anti Relativity : Anti-Relativity's conjecture about Aether
		It seems as though earth, water, air, fire and spirit could possibly be a convolution of an ancient understanding of the states of matter: solid, liquid, gas, plasma, Aether.
		In Greek mythology ether was the 'upper air' that gods breathed.
		Anyone well versed in archeology knows that the knowledge of celestial events in ancient peoples points out that there was a great deal of knowledge they had accumulated that is now lost across the span of generations.
	www.anti-relativity.com /ancientknowledge.htm (481 words)

	Creation
		(Hesiod had referred to Aether as the upper atmosphere, where the air was clean and pure; he referred to Aether as male entity, while in the Orphic myth, Aether was seen as female being.
		Chaos was fathomless void, abyss or the yawning gap.
		Chronus then combined with Aether, or possibly with Chaos and Aether, so the primeval beings caused mists to form and solidify into a Cosmic Egg.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/creation.html (7482 words)

	Greek Pantheon
		A Primal being, child of Chaos, by Nyx father of the Hesperides and of Aether.
		A Child of Nyx and companion of Ares, she has some resemblence to the Celtic Morrigan in her exaltation of discord and unrational frenzy.
		Not arranged as a distinct class in and of itself, here is, even so, the catalogue of the first entities to manifest in the Hellenic cosmology, and the sources for all the rest: Aether, Chaos, Erebus, Gaea, Hemera, Nyx, Phanes, Pontos, Uranus.
	web.raex.com /~obsidian/GrkPan.html (4574 words)

	Mythology
		Then Erebus slept with Night, who gave birth to Aether, the heavenly light, and to Day, the earthly light.
		One of the most significant features of the Greek mythology is the presence of the Fates: these were three goddesses who spend the time weaving a rug where all the affairs of men and gods appear.
		There is nothing that can be done to alter this rug, even the gods are powerless to do so, and it is this that is interesting.
	phyun5.ucr.edu /~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node30.html (785 words)

	Aether - Metaweb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In physics and philosophy, aether (also spelled ether) was once believed to be a substance which filled all of space.
		" James Clerk Maxwell, Lord Kelvin, and Nikola Tesla held a view of the aether more akin to it actually being the electromagnetic field.
		This page was last modified 22:24, 15 Mar 2005.
	www.metaweb.com /wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Aether (639 words)

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