Nyx

Nyx is the Greek goddess of the night. She is one of the very first deities in Greek mythology. Her siblings are Gaia, Tartarus, Eros, and Erebus. Erebus is also her consort. There isn't much surviving mythology about her but it is very clear that she has immense power and beauty so much that even Zeus himself fears Nyx.

Nyx was born of chaos with Erebus (darkness). Her children are Aether (brightness), Hemera (day), Moro (doom and destiny), The Keres (destruction, death), Thanatos (death), Hypnos (sleep), The Oneiroi (dreams), Momus (blame), Oizys (pain, distress), the Hesperides, the Moirai (fates), Nemesis (indignation, retribution), Apate (deceit), Philotes (friendship), Geras (old age) and Eris (strife), She has 1000 Daughters and 1000 sons. They're are all minor deities in the pantheon but even so, Zeus wouldn't punish them for fear of angering Nyx.

Hera once convinced Nyx's child, Hypnos (sleep) to put Zeus to sleep so she could plot against him and cause his son Hercules great misfortune. He discovered Hypnos's role in the betrayal and Hypnos was afraid of punishment from Zeus so he ran to Nyx. Zeus is afraid of Nyx and so Hypnos got away with it. Hypnos angered Zeus a few more times but always ran away back to Nyx and escaped all punishments.

In some stories, she replaces chaos as creation where all comes from. Whether she was creation or was born from Chaos she is the very first goddess and the most powerful.

She is sometimes winged and sometimes riding in a chariot, but she is always in black and shrouded in darkness and night. She is said to live deep in the underworld. She can impact men in a good or a bad way and can bring sleep or death. But she is not evil, she is beautiful, powerful, and is the goddess of the night but she is not evil. It is not often that I come across mythology were the most powerful being in the pantheon being a woman I also don't often come across any powerful independent woman not being evil.

She is symbolized by the moon or stars and her stone is the moonstone. In Roman mythology, she is known as Nox. Her animal is the owl.

It said that at sunset she rides her chariot, or flies, across the sky to bring night. She has Chronos chained in her cave drunk on honey where he prophesies and dreams. Outside Adrastea clashes symbols and beats her Typanon moving the universe to Nyx chants.

"There also stands the gloomy house of Night;

ghastly clouds shroud it in darkness.

Before it, Atlas stands erect and on his head

and unwearying arms firmly supports the broad sky,

where Night and Day cross a bronze threshold

and then come close and great each other."

(Hesiod, Theogony, 744 ff.)

The above is the greatest passages I've found about Nyx's home.

Nyx is a very special goddess. I haven't found another like her anywhere. She is fascinating, she brings the night, has the power to make all afraid of her, can bewitch men and gods with her beauty. She is the goddess of the night and beauty. She wasn't very worshipped but had some statues, just not nearly a cult following like the major deities in Greek mythology.

I didn't know much about Nyx till my best friend, Jessica, was called upon by her. It is easy to see how anyone could be fascinated with such a powerful and beautiful goddess but I don't understand how she has such a small following. Not many people know about her, tho she is in a popular Vampyre book, and it seems to of been that way for thousands of years.

This is dedicated to my best friend Jessica. I love you to pieces!!