Tartaros was, as we have already remarked, unvisited by the light of day. […] As in all cosmogonies darkness precedes light, so Erebos and Night, the one the darkness beneath, the other that above the earth, succeed, and from them spring Day the lower, and Æther the higher light above the earth. […] Day bears light to mortals ; Night, ‘wrapt in a sable cloud, carries Sleep in her arms.’ […] His office was to give light to men and gods during the day. […] In ten months afterwards the tree opened, and the young Adonis came to light.