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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.
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 ...
Selene, the Greek personification of the Moon, and the Roman Diana were also sometimes called "Cynthia". [34] Artume: Etruscan: Ataegina: Lusitanian: Sen: Mesopotamian Religion: Bendis: Thracian: Devana: Slavic: Devana was the Slavic goddess of wild nature, forests, hunting and the moon, equated with the Greek goddess Artemis and Roman goddess ...
The following is a family tree of gods, goddesses, and other divine and semi-divine figures from Ancient Greek mythology and Ancient Greek religion. Chaos The Void
Orpheus marked the divine portent, and for his comrades addressed them in prayer: "O divine ones, fair and kind, be gracious, O queens, whether ye be numbered among the heavenly goddesses, or those beneath the earth, or be called the Solitary nymphs; come, O nymphs, sacred race of Oceanus, appear manifest to our longing eyes and show us some ...
Night sky goddesses (3 C) Pages in category "Night goddesses" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Eos, goddess of the dawn; Hemera, personification of day; Hyperion, Titan of light; sometimes conflated with his son Helios; Lampetia, goddess of light, and one of the Heliades or daughters of Helios , god of the Sun, and of the nymph Neera . Theia, Titaness of sight and the shining light of the clear blue sky. She is the consort of Hyperion ...
In Greek mythology, Hemera (/ ˈ h ɛ m ər ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἡμέρα, romanized: Hēmérā, lit. 'Day' [hɛːméraː]) was the personification of day. According to Hesiod, she was the daughter of Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night), and the sister of Aether.