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In Greek mythology, Nyx (/ n ɪ k s / NIX; [2] Ancient Greek: Νύξ Nýx, , "Night") [3] is the goddess and personification of the night. [4] In Hesiod's Theogony, she is the offspring of Chaos, and the mother of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Erebus (Darkness). By herself, she produces a brood of children which are mainly personifications of ...
Asteria, Titan goddess of nocturnal oracles and the stars; Hades, god of the underworld, whose domain included night and darkness; Hecate, the goddess of boundaries, crossroads, witchcraft, and ghosts, who was commonly associated with the moon; Nyx, goddess and personification of the night; Selene, Titaness goddess and personification of the moon
Some authors made Nyx the mother of Eos, the dawn goddess, who was often conflated with Nyx's daughter Hemera. [19] When Eos' son Memnon was killed during the Trojan War, Eos made Helios (the sun god) downcast, and asked Nyx to come out earlier so that she would collect her son's dead body undetected by the Greek and the Trojan armies. [20]
She is the goddess and personification of the night in Greek mythology. ... Children of Nyx (7 C, 27 P) Pages in category "Nyx" The following 9 pages are in this ...
Here Are 176 Greek God and Goddess Names. ... Nyx — The personification of night in Greek mythology. 80. Draven — English origin, popularized meaning "of the dark" or "hunter."
In Hesiod's Theogony, Hemera and her brother Aether were the offspring of Erebus and Nyx. [2] Bacchylides apparently had Hemera as the daughter of Chronus (Time) and Nyx. [3] In the lost epic poem the Titanomachy (late seventh century BC?), [4] Hemera was perhaps the mother, by Aether, of Uranus (Sky). [5]
Nyx (Νύξ), the primeval goddess of night; Orphne (Ορφνη), a Lampad nymph of Hades, mother of Askalaphos; Persephone (Περσεφόνη), queen of the underworld, wife of Hades and goddess of spring growth; Rivers of the Underworld Acheron (Αχέρων), the river of woe; Alpheus (Ἀλφειός), the white river
Moros is the offspring of Nyx, the primordial goddess of the night. It is suggested by Roman authors that Moros was sired by Erebus, primordial god of darkness. [3] However, in Hesiod's Theogony it is suggested that Nyx bore him by herself, along with several of her other children.