Their abstract, interchangeable names are a symptom of their impersonality. In Greek mythology, according to scholars, since the Hesperides themselves are mere symbols of the gifts the apples embody, they cannot be actors in a human drama. Given that the Garden is Asherah's abode, they tend to serve as her handmaidens in a sense. God gave them the task of tending to the Gardens of Creation as well as harvesting the divine fruits of the Tree of Life. As such, they are regarded as the first ever Theos Angelos in existence and the first ones to ever be conceived by an archangel.Īfter Lucifer's fall from Heaven, the Hesperides were at first opted to be destroyed by the angels, however God instead found use for them as He did not wish for them to fall down a dark path like their father.
It was revealed that the Hesperides are in fact, the daughters of Lucifer, before his fall from Heaven and was masquerading as a deity known as Hesperus. 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. The Hesperides are the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunset, who were the 'Daughters of the Evening' or 'Nymphs of the West' and the 'Spawn of the Morning Star'.
