Primordial Greek Goddess of Night; Consort of Erebus (Darkness); Daughter of Khaos (Air); Sister to Gaia (Earth), Eros (Love), Tartarus, and Erebus; Mother of Aither (Light), Hemera (Day), Charon, Hypnos (Sleep), Eris (Discord), Thanatos (Death), Nemesis (Retribution), the Hesperides (the Evenings), Geras (Old Age), Apate (Guile), Oizys (Misery), Momos (Criticism), Philotes (Friendship), Styx (Abhorrent), Fatum (Fate), the Moirai (the Fates), the Oneiroi (Dreams), and the Erinyes (the Furies).
Nyx - "swift Night"; "black-winged Night"; "Mother Night"; "Nyx of the blue-black headband"
Her symbols are eggs, stars, poppies, the moon, and the colors black and blue-black.
"To Nyx, Fumigation with Torches.
Nyx, parent goddess, source of sweet repose
from whom at first both Gods and men arose.
Hear, blessed Kypris, decked with starry light,
in sleep's deep silence dwelling ebon night!
Dreams and soft ease attend thy dusky train,
pleased with lengthened gloom and feastful strain,
dissolving anxious care, the friend of mirth,
with darkling coursers riding round the earth.
Goddess of phantoms and of shadowy play,
whose drowsy power divides the natural day;
by fate's decree you constant send the light
to deepest hell, remote from mortal sight;
for dire necessity, which nought withstands,
invests the world with adamantine bands.
Be present, Goddess, to thy suppliant's prayer,
desired by all, whom all alike revere,
blessed, benevolent, with friendly aid
dispel the fears of twilight's dreadful shade."
-Orphic Hymn 3 to Nyx (Greek hymns C3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.)
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