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In Norse mythology, Dökkálfar ("Dark Elves") [a] and Ljósálfar ("Light Elves") [b] are two contrasting types of elves; the dark elves dwell within the earth and have a dark complexion, while the light elves live in Álfheimr, and are "fairer than the sun to look at". The Ljósálfar and the Dökkálfar are attested in the Prose Edda ...
Black-and-white dualism. The Last Judgement by Viktor Vasnetsov. The contrast of white and black (light and darkness, day and night) has a long tradition of metaphorical usage, traceable to the Ancient Near East, and explicitly in the Pythagorean Table of Opposites. In Western culture as well as in Confucianism, the contrast symbolizes the ...
Apollo, god of light, among many other things. 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 ...
Germanic lore featured light and dark elves (Ljósálfar and Dökkálfar).This may be roughly equivalent to later concepts such as the Seelie and Unseelie. [2]In the mid-thirteenth century, Thomas of Cantimpré classified fairies into neptuni of water, incubi who wandered the earth, dusii under the earth, and spiritualia nequitie in celestibus, who inhabit the air.
Ratri, goddess of night. Chandra, god of the moon. Rahu, celestial deity of darkness and eclipse. Bhairava, god of night, guardian of all 52 Shakti Peetha. Kali, goddess of death. Dewi Ratih, Balinese goddess of the moon.
Dualism in cosmology. Dualism or dualistic cosmology is the moral or belief that two fundamental concepts exist, which often oppose each other. It is an umbrella term that covers a diversity of views from various religions, including both traditional religions and scriptural religions. Moral dualism is the belief of the great complement of, or ...
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology. These stories concern the ancient Greek religion 's view of the origin and nature of the world; the lives and activities of deities ...
e. In Greek mythology, Erebus (/ ˈɛrəbəs /; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἔρεβος, romanized: Érebos, lit. '"darkness, gloom"'), [2] or Erebos, is the personification of darkness. In Hesiod 's Theogony, he is the offspring of Chaos, and the father of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Nyx (Night); in other Greek cosmogonies, he is the father of Aether ...