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Material beyond the terrestrial plane, in medieval science
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aether
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According to ancient and medieval science , aether ( aithēr ), also spelled æther or ether , also called quintessence , is the material that fills the region of the universe above the terrestrial sphere . The concept of aether was used in several theories ...
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n. (context Greek mythology English) One of the Greek primordial deities, who was the personification of the upper air of the gods. His parents of Erebus and Nyx, and his sister-wife is Hemera/Dies.
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Audax Iapeti genus Ignem fraude mala gentibus intulit: Post ignem aetheria domo Subductum, macies et nova febrium Terris incubuit cohors, Semotique prius tarda necessitas Lethi corripuit gradum.
The air souring and, like badness in milk, particles of matter coagulating from nothing, clots of rank aether aggregated into organising shape, and then there was a moving insectile thing made of scabbed nothing and sudden shade that twisted in the air as if suspended by thread and glimmered visible and invisible and then was unquestionably there, a hook-legged thing in the colours of rot, as large as a man.
All was blackness beneath as the fluttering legion surged northward amidst rushing winds and invisible laughter in the aether, and never a Shantak or less mentionable entity rose from the haunted wastes to pursue them.
Crown of Stars crowned the heavens, the way would be open for Anne to weave a great spell to cast the Aoi land back out into the aether, to create a second cataclysm.
Even lacking three crowns it would hold, it would cast the Aoi land back into the aether, but beneath the weaving the first intimations of doom swept across the land as lightning torched the sky and earthquakes shuddered across the entire continent of Novaria.
On that day, in less than eighteen months, when the Crown of Stars crowned the heavens, the way would be open for Anne to weave a great spell to cast the Aoi land back out into the aether, to create a second cataclysm.
The warp and weft of the spell wove together into a vast glittering net that interpenetrated aether and Earth.
Word rushed like water down Aether Street, out into fetid Paradise Square and beyond, swiftly flooding the wynds and alleys of the Eighth District, whose residents responsively came flocking.
They move on the winds of aether, and now and again their gaze falls like the strike of lightning to the Earth below.
Then they could fling us back into the aether, and we would surely all perish, together with our land.
How could any person ascend into the heavens in bodily form, because the heavens were made up of aether, light, wind, and fire?
She waded into a streaming river of aether that flowed upward to its natural home.
On the currents of aether, insubstantial figures shaped in a vaguely humanlike form but composed of no mortal element danced in the fields of air through which these rivulets ran.
As though her thought itself had the power of making, an archway built of aether and light flowed into existence against the shining wall.
A breath of aether picked her up bodily, and the guardian faded until she saw it only as a spire of ice sparkling by the gateway.