Gaea

Hesiod uses a similar expression to describe the death of the Race of Bronze: [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] (Works and Days 155), "and they left behind the bright light of the sun." Similarly, when he describes how Ouranos would not permit the children of Mother Earth to be born, Hesiod says [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], (Theogony 157) "And he hid them all away, and did not allow them into the light." The same expression is used to describe Zeus' restoring the Hecatoncheires, who had been imprisoned by Kronos, to aid him in his battle against the Titans (Theog.