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The oldest Orphic theogony in which Night is known to have appeared is the Eudemian Theogony (5th century BC), [92] which receives its name from the philosopher Eudemus of Rhodes, a student of Aristotle, who spoke of an Orphic theogony in one of his works; this theogony was later referred to by the Neoplatonist Damascius, in his De Principiis ...
The Norse night goddess Nótt riding her horse, in a 19th-century painting by Peter Nicolai Arbo. A night deity is a goddess or god in mythology associated with night, or the night sky. They commonly feature in polytheistic religions. The following is a list of night deities in various mythologies.
Many god lists compiled by ancient scribes contained entire "Inanna group" sections enumerating similar goddesses, [164] and tablet IV of the monumental god list An-Anum (7 tablets total) is known as the "Ishtar tablet" due to most of its contents being the names of Ishtar's equivalents, her titles and various attendants. [165]
Savitr is a deity whose name primarily denotes an agent, in the form of a noun derived from a verbal root with the agent suffix -tṛ added. The name of Savitr belongs to a class of Vedic theonyms, together with Dhatṛ, Tratṛ and Tvastr. These names denote that these are agent gods, who create, protect, and produce, respectively. [6]
Janus Films, a film distribution company founded in 1956, takes its name from the god and features a two-faced Janus as its logo. [269] The Janus Society was an early homophile organization founded in 1962 and based in Philadelphia.
[2] [3] [4] Kek and Kauket in some aspects also represent night and day, and were called "raiser up of the light" and the "raiser up of the night", respectively. [ 5 ] The name is written as kk or kkwy with a variant of the sky hieroglyph in ligature with the staff ( N2 ) associated with the word for "darkness" kkw .
According to B'nai Mitzvah Academy, you can say the following prayer for each night of Hanukkah: "Blessed are You, Adonai our God, Ruler of the Universe, who makes us holy with your commandments ...
In Hesiod's Theogony, Hypnos is one of the offspring of Nyx (Νύξ, ' Night '), the goddess of Night, without a father. [11] In genealogies from works by Roman authors, he is the son of Erebus (Darkness) and Nox (Night, the Roman name for Nyx). [12] In the Iliad, Nyx is a dreadful and powerful goddess, and even Zeus fears to enter her realm. [13]