query: father epiphron
supports: The English word spirit, from Latin "spiritus" "breath", has many different meanings and connotations, most of them relating to a non-corporeal substance contrasted with the material body. It can also refer to a "subtle" as opposed to "gross" material substance, as in the famous last paragraph of Sir Isaac Newton's "Principia Mathematica". In Greek mythology, Hypnos ("sleep") is the personification of sleep; the Roman equivalent is known as Somnus. In Greek mythology Hemera ("day") was the personification of day and one of the Greek primordial deities. She is the goddess of the daytime and, according to Hesiod, the daughter of Erebus and Nyx (the goddess of night). Hemera is remarked upon in Cicero's "De Natura Deorum", where it is logically determined that "Dies" (Hemera) must be a god, if Uranus is a god. The poet Bacchylides states that Nyx and Chronos are the parents, but Hyginus in his preface to the "Fabulae" mentions Chaos as the mother/father and Nyx as her sister. Nyx ("Night") is the Greek goddess (or personification) of the night. A shadowy figure, Nyx stood at or near the beginning of creation and mothered other personified deities such as Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death), with Erebus (Darkness). Her appearances are sparse in surviving mythology, but reveal her as a figure of such exceptional power and beauty that she is feared by Zeus himself. In Greek mythology, Erebus , also Erebos ("deep darkness, shadow"), was often conceived as a primordial deity, representing the personification of darkness; for instance, Hesiod's "Theogony" identifies him as one of the first five beings in existence, born of Chaos. Erebus features little in Greek mythological tradition and literature, but is said to have fathered several other deities with Nyx; depending on the source of the mythology, this union includes Aether, Hemera, the Hesperides, Hypnos, the Moirai, Geras, Styx, Charon, and Thanatos. In Greek mythology , Epiphron ( `` prudence , care '' ) was the son of Erebus and Nyx ; he was the daimon or spirit of prudence , shrewdness , thoughtfulness , carefulness and sagacity . Zeus ("Zeús", ; Modern , "Días" ) was the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who ruled as king of the gods of Mount Olympus. His name is cognate with the first element of his Roman equivalent Jupiter. His mythologies and powers are similar, though not identical to those of the Indo-European deities such as Indra, Jupiter, Perun, Thor, and Odin. In Greek mythology, the Hesperides are the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunset, who were the "Daughters of the Evening" or "Nymphs of the West". They tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world, located near the Atlas mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus, the world-ocean.
candidates: aether atlas cicero erebos hypnos isaac jupiter thor zeus
answer: erebos