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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.
Goddesses associated with the night. Subcategories. This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. A. Artemis (7 C, 21 ...
Night sky goddesses (3 C) Q. Queens of Heaven (antiquity) (6 C, 10 P) T. Thunder goddesses (11 P) Pages in category "Sky and weather goddesses" The following 57 pages ...
Haashchʼéé Baʼáádí (Hastsébaádi, Qastcebaad, Yebaad) (Female Divinity) Haashchʼéé Oołtʼohí (Hastséoltoi, Hastyeoltoi, Shooting God) Hakʼaz Asdzą́ą́ (Cold Woman) Náhookǫs Baʼáádí (Whirling Woman) Na'ashjé'ii Asdzáá (Spider Grandmother) Są́ (Old Age Woman) Tséghádiʼnídíinii Atʼééd (Rock Crystal Girl) Gwich ...
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 ...
Baldr, god thought to be associated with light and/or day; is known by many other names, all of which have cognates in other Germanic languages, suggesting he may have been a pan-Germanic deity; Dagr, personification of day; Earendel, god of rising light and/or a star; Eostre, considered to continue the Proto-Indo-European dawn goddess
This forces the King to keep her alive for another day so that she can resume the tale at night. The name derives from the Persian šahr (شهر, 'city') and -zâd (زاد, 'child of'); or from the Middle-Persian čehrāzād, wherein čehr means 'lineage' and āzād, 'noble' or 'exalted' (i.e. 'of noble or exalted lineage' or 'of noble ...
Hëna ("the Moon) is a personified female deity in Albanian mythology. Hors: Slavic: Hjúki and Bil: Norse: Ilargi: Basque: Kuu: Finnish: Losna: Etruscan: Luna: Roman: Roman counterpart to the Greek Titaness Selene. Sibling to Sol and Aurora. Considered one of the 20 principal deities of Rome, having had temples on both the Aventine and ...