Nyx – The darkness of the Earth
Nyx – The darkness of the Earth
Classification: Primal God
Culture: Greek
Associated: Darkness, Chaos, Death , Time
Nyx the darkness of the earth one of the primal Greek
deities which arose from chaos at the beginning of creation.
Nyx and Erobus the darkness of the underworld had sex and
produce Aither (The Either or bright upper air) and Hemera (The Day)
Nyx was the mother of
the fates Eris who was discord, Thanatos
who was death and Hypnos was sleep.
Even Zeus feared her black winged figure. Nyx was associated
with inflexible destiny and was associated and was shown clad in a robe or
cloak of stars riding a chariot pulled by black horses or by nocturnal creatures
such as owls and bats.
She is depicted wearing a Crown of poppies an carrying two
of her children sleep and death. She is personified in western art by maternal
figure with a white child who was sleep and a black one who was deaf. An image
that can conveys the ambivalent symbolism of the night.
Usually depicted in a calm figure with folded wings she may
be represented with a mask a Crescent moon or an owl. And illustrations night
and day are depicted as black and white mice gnawing at time. In the orphic
creation myth Nyx was a daughter and consort Phanes the creator God and gave
birth the deities Gaia and Uranos.
Uranos would rule until dethroned by his son Cronus. King
Cronus would find the dame fate at the hands of his son Zeus.
Abode Tartarus
Personal information
Parents Chaos
Siblings Gaia,
Tartarus, Erebus
Consort Erebus
Children Aether,
Hemera, Moros, Apate, Dolos, Nemesis, the Keres, the Moirai, the Hesperides,
Oizys, Momus, the Oneiroi, Hypnos, Thanatos, Philotes, Geras, Eris, Charon
