Hemera

deity sky Indo-European single tradition · 2

Hemera is the goddess of the day and daylight. This Indo-European goddess of the dawn was often conflated and equated with Hemera.

↻ synthesized from 2 sources

When

First attested
1500 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Attested since the Vedic period.

Relationships

syncretized with
Eos, Dies
sibling of
Aether
parent of
Uranus
co occurs with
H₂éwsōs, Zeus, *Dyēus, Hyperion, Theia
child of
Erebus, Nyx, Chronus
allied with
Helios

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Sources

wikipedia (2)
  1. Eos

Source passages

“This Indo-European goddess of the dawn was often conflated and equated with Hemera, the goddess of the day and daylight.”

#18162 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“archaeological evidence has proven the existence of a small shrine to Hemera and Helios, the god of the sun, on the island of Kos”

#28455 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5