Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
The Keres were daughters of Nyx, and as such the sisters of beings such as Moirai, who controlled the fate of souls, and Thanatos, the god of peaceful death. Some later authorities, such as Cicero , called them by a Latin name, Tenebrae ("the Darknesses"), and named them daughters of Erebus and Nyx.
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 ...
In the older myths they are daughters of primeval beings like Nyx ("night") in Theogony, or Ananke in Orphic cosmogony. Whether or not providing a father even for the Moirai was a symptom of how far Greek mythographers were willing to go, in order to modify the old myths to suit the patrilineal Olympic order, [ 67 ] the claim of a paternity was ...
For example, the geographer Pausanias describes seeing depictions, on the "Royal Portico" at Athens and on the throne of Apollo at Amyclae, of Cephalus being carried off by a goddess whom he identifies as Hemera. [16] He also describes a stone pedestal at Olympia which depicted Hemera pleading with Zeus for the life of her son Memnon. [17]
They are sometimes portrayed as the evening daughters of Night , either alone, [3] or with Darkness , [4] in accord with the way Eos in the farthermost east, in Colchis, is the daughter of the titan Hyperion. The Hesperides are also listed as the daughters of Atlas [5] and Hesperis, [6] or of Phorcys and Ceto, [7] or of Zeus and Themis. [8]
In Euripides' play Herakles, Lyssa is identified as the daughter of the night-goddess Nyx, "sprung from the blood of Uranus"—that is, the blood from Uranus' wound following his castration by his son Cronus. [3] The 1st-century Latin writer Hyginus lists Ira (Wrath, Lyssa) as the daughter of Terra and Aether. [4]
Nyctimene (/ n ɪ k t ɪ m æ n i /, Ancient Greek: Νυκτιμένη, romanized: Nuktiménē, lit. 'she who stays up at night') was, according to Greek and Roman mythology, a princess and a rape victim, the daughter of Epopeus, a king of Lesbos.