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Interesting.

Porphyry, fragment #5

And the power of the whole air is Hera, called by a name derived from the air: but the symbol of the sublunar air which is affected by light and darkness is Leto; for she is oblivion caused by the insensibility in sleep, and because souls begotten below the moon are accompanied by forgetfulness of the Divine; and on this account she is also the mother of Apollo and Artemis, who are the sources of light for the night.

http://classics.mit.edu/Porphyry/images.html

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Neoplatonic actually. I haven't seen these ideas anywhere else, but I haven't really read anything of Neoplatonism either.