- Disambiguation: Nyx may also refer to Nix
The Neck or the Nix/Nixe/Nyx are shapeshifting water spirits who usually appear in human form. The spirit has appeared in the myths and legends of all Germanic peoples in Europe....
.
In
Greek mythologyGreek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...
,
Nyx was the primordial
goddessA goddess is a female deity. Often deities are part of a polytheistic system that includes several deities in a pantheon. In some cultures goddesses are commonly associated with the Earth, motherhood, love, and the household, often reflecting the historical gender roles of that culture...
of the night. A shadowy figure, Nyx stood at or near the beginning of creation, and was the mother of
personifiedPersonification is an ontological metaphor in which a thing or abstraction is represented as a person.The term "personification" may apply to:...
godGod is a deity in theistic and deistic religions and other belief systems, representing either the sole deity in monotheism, or a principal deity in polytheism....
s such as
HypnosIn Greek mythology, Hypnos was the personification of sleep; the Roman equivalent was known as Somnus. His twin was Thánatos ; their mother was the goddess Nyx . His palace was a dark cave where the sun never shines...
(sleep) and
ThánatosIn Greek mythology, Thánatos was the daemon personification of Death. He was a minor figure in Greek mythology, often referred to but rarely appearing in person...
(death). Her appearances in mythology are sparse, but reveal her as a figure of exceptional power and beauty.
Role in myth and literature
HesiodHesiod was a Greek oral poet. His date is uncertain but leading scholars , agree that Hesiod lived in the latter half of the eighth century BCE. Since at least Herodotus's time , Hesiod and Homer have generally been considered the earliest Greek poets whose work has survived, and they are often...
In
HesiodHesiod was a Greek oral poet. His date is uncertain but leading scholars , agree that Hesiod lived in the latter half of the eighth century BCE. Since at least Herodotus's time , Hesiod and Homer have generally been considered the earliest Greek poets whose work has survived, and they are often...
's
TheogonyThe Theogony is a poem by Hesiod describing the origins and genealogies of the gods of the ancient Greeks, composed circa 700 BC.-Descriptions:...
, Nyx is born of
ChaosIn Greek myth, Chaos or Khaos is the first of the Protogenoi and the god of the air. Later on Chaos was described as an original state of existence from which the first gods appeared. In other words, the dark void of space. It is made from a mixture of what the Ancient Greeks considered the four...
; her offspring are many, and telling. With
ErebusIn Greek mythology, Erebus , also Erebos or Erebes , was the son of a primordial god, Khaos, and represented the personification of darkness and shadow, which filled in all the corners and crannies of the world. His name is used interchangeably with Tartarus and Hades since Erebus is often thought...
the deity of shadow and darkness, Nyx gives birth to
AetherAether , in Greek mythology, is one of the Protogenoi, the first-born elemental gods. He is the personification of the upper sky, space, and heaven, and is the elemental god of the "Bright, Glowing, Upper Air." He is the pure upper air that the gods breathe, as opposed to the normal air mortals...
(atmosphere) and
HemeraIn Greek mythology Hemera was the personification of day and one of the Protogenoi or primordial deities. She is the goddess of the daytime and, according to Hesiod, the daughter of Erebos and Nyx . Hemera is remarked upon in Cicero's De Natura Deorum, where it is logically determined that Dies ...
(day). Later, on her own, Nyx gives birth to
MomusFor the Scottish artist and singer see Momus . Momus or Momos , in Greek mythology the god of satire, mockery, censure, writers, poets, a spirit of evil-spirited blame and unfair criticism. His name is related to μομφή, meaning 'blame' or 'censure'...
(blame),
PonosPonos was the god of sorrow in Greek mythology. His mother was the goddess Eris , who was the daughter of Nyx . He was brother to Algos, Lethe, Limos, and Horcus....
(toil),
MorosIn Greek mythology, Moros is the personification of impending doom, who drives every being, mortal or otherwise, to its fated doom. Very little is known about him, but he is thought to be omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, and not even Zeus can defeat him...
(fate),
ThanatosIn Greek mythology, Thánatos was the daemon personification of Death. He was a minor figure in Greek mythology, often referred to but rarely appearing in person...
(death),
HypnosIn Greek mythology, Hypnos was the personification of sleep; the Roman equivalent was known as Somnus. His twin was Thánatos ; their mother was the goddess Nyx . His palace was a dark cave where the sun never shines...
(sleep),
CharonIn Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon was the ferryman of Hades who carried souls of the newly deceased across the River Styx that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a...
(the ferryman of Hades), the
OneiroiIn Greek mythology, the Oneiroi were the brothers or sons of Hypnos, the god of sleep. They were personifications of dreams—black-winged daemons—and were said to live on the shores of the Ocean in the far West, in a cavern near the border of Hades...
(dreams), the
HesperidesIn Greek mythology, the Hesperides are nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world, located near the Atlas mountains in Tanger, Morocco at the edge of the encircling Oceanus, the world-ocean....
, the
KeresIn Greek mythology, the Keres were female death-spirits. The Keres were daughters of Nyx, and as such the sisters of Fate , Doom , Death and Sleep , Strife , Old Age , Divine Retribution , Charon, and other personifications...
and Fates,
NemesisIn Greek mythology, Nemesis , also called Rhamnousia/Rhamnusia at her sanctuary at Rhamnous north of Marathon, was the spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to hubris, vengeful fate personified as a remorseless goddess. The name Nemesis is related to the Greek word νέμειν, meaning...
(retribution),
ApateApate was the daughter of Nyx in Greek mythology. She was the personification of deceit, and was one of the evil spirits released from Pandora's box. Her Roman equivalent was Fraus, which is where the word 'fraud' originated...
(deception),
PhilotesPhilotes is a minor Greek goddess. She was a daughter of Nyx. She is the personification of affection and friendship....
(friendship),
GerasIn Greek mythology, Geras was the god of old age. It was considered a virtue whereby the more gēras a man acquired, the more kleos and arete he was considered to have. According to Hesiod, Gēras was a son of Nyx. Hyginus adds that his father was Erebus. He was depicted as a tiny shrivelled up...
(age), and
ErisEris is the Greek goddess of strife, her name being translated into Latin as Discordia. Her Greek opposite is Harmonia, whose Latin counterpart is Concordia. Homer equated her with the war-goddess Enyo, whose Roman counterpart is Bellona...
(strife).
In his description of
TartarusIn classic mythology, below Heaven, Earth, and Pontus is Tartarus, or Tartaros . It is a deep, gloomy place, a pit, or an abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering that resides beneath the underworld. In the Gorgias, Plato wrote that souls were judged after death and those who received...
, Hesiod says further that
HemeraIn Greek mythology Hemera was the personification of day and one of the Protogenoi or primordial deities. She is the goddess of the daytime and, according to Hesiod, the daughter of Erebos and Nyx . Hemera is remarked upon in Cicero's De Natura Deorum, where it is logically determined that Dies ...
(day), who is Nyx's daughter, left
TartarusIn classic mythology, below Heaven, Earth, and Pontus is Tartarus, or Tartaros . It is a deep, gloomy place, a pit, or an abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering that resides beneath the underworld. In the Gorgias, Plato wrote that souls were judged after death and those who received...
just as Nyx entered it; when Hemera returned, Nyx left. This mirrors the portrayal of
RatriRatri, who is often also called Ratridevi is the goddess of night in the Vedas, and the mythology of India and Hinduism. She is sister to Ushas, the Vedic goddess of Dawn...
(night) in the Rig-Veda, where she works in close cooperation but also tension with her sister
UshasUshas , Sanskrit for "dawn", is a Vedic deity, and consequently a Hindu deity as well.Ushas is an exalted divinity in the Rig Veda, sometimes spoken of in the plural, "the Dawns." She is portrayed as welcoming birds and warding off evil spirits, and as a beautifully adorned young woman riding in a...
(dawn).
HomerHomer is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey...
In Book 14 of
Homer'sHomer is a legendary ancient Greek epic poet, traditionally said to be the author of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey...
IliadThe Iliad is an epic poem recounting significant events during a portion of the final year of the Trojan War — the Greek siege of the city of Ilion — hence the title...
, there is a quote by
HypnosIn Greek mythology, Hypnos was the personification of sleep; the Roman equivalent was known as Somnus. His twin was Thánatos ; their mother was the goddess Nyx . His palace was a dark cave where the sun never shines...
, the minor god of sleep, in which he reminds
HeraIn the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hera or Here was the wife and older sister of Zeus. Her chief function was as goddess of women and marriage. In Roman mythology, Juno was the equivalent mythical character. The cow, and later, the peacock were sacred to her...
of an old favor after she asks him to put
ZeusIn Greek mythology, Zeus is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky and thunder. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull, and oak. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer" also derives certain iconographic traits from the...
to sleep. He had once before put Zeus to sleep at the bidding of Hera, allowing her to cause
HeraclesIn Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles , Alcides or Alcaeus , was a divine hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus...
(who was returning by sea from
Laomedon'sIn Greek mythology, Laomedon was a Trojan king, son of Ilus, brother of Ganymedes and father of Priam, Astyoche, Lampus, Hicetaon, Clytius, Cilla, Proclia, Aethilla, Clytodora, and Hesione. Tithonus is also described by most sources as Laomedon's eldest legitimate son; and most sources omit...
Troy) great misfortune. Zeus was furious and would have smitten Hypnos into the sea if he had not fled to Nyx, his mother, in fear. Hypnos goes on to say that Zeus, fearing to anger Nyx, held his fury at bay, and in this way Hypnos escaped the wrath of Zeus.
Other Greek texts
Nyx took on an even more important role in several fragmentary poems attributed to
OrpheusOrpheus is an important figure from Greek mythology, the inspiration for subsequent Orphic cults, much of the literature, poetry and drama of ancient Greece and Rome and, due to his association with singing and the lyre, much dramatic Western classical music.Orpheus was called by Pindar "the...
. In them, Nyx, rather than
ChaosIn Greek myth, Chaos or Khaos is the first of the Protogenoi and the god of the air. Later on Chaos was described as an original state of existence from which the first gods appeared. In other words, the dark void of space. It is made from a mixture of what the Ancient Greeks considered the four...
, is the first principle. Nyx occupies a cave or
adytonThe adyton or adytum was a restricted area within the cella of a Greek or Roman temple. Its name meant "inaccessible" or "do not enter". The adyton was frequently a small area at the farthest end of the cella from the entrance: at Delphi it measured just nine by twelve feet. The adyton would...
, in which she gives
oracleAn oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion. It may also be a revealed prediction or precognition of the future, from deities, that is spoken through another object or life-form ....
s.
KronosCronus or Kronos was the leader and the youngest of the first generation of Titans, divine descendants of Gaia, the earth goddess, and Ouranos, the sky...
- who is chained within, asleep and drunk on honey – dreams and prophesies. Outside the cave, Adrastea clashes cymbals and beats upon her
tympanonTimpani are musical instruments in the percussion family. A type of drum, they consist of a skin called a head stretched over a large bowl traditionally made of copper, and more recently, constructed of more lightweight fiberglass. They are played by striking the head with a specialized drum stick...
, moving the entire universe in an ecstatic dance to the rhythm of Nyx's chanting.
PhanesPhanes , or Protogonos , was the mystic primeval deity of procreation and the generation of new life, who was introduced into Greek mythology by the Orphic tradition; other names for this Classical Greek Orphic concept included Ericapaeus and Metis...
- the strange, monstrous,
hermaphroditeIn a biological context, a hermaphrodite is an animal or plant that has both male and female reproductive organs.Many taxonomic groups of animals , do not have separate sexes. In these groups, hermaphroditism is a normal condition, enabling a form of sexual reproduction in which both partners can...
Orphic
demiurgeDemiurge in philosophical and religious language is a term for a creator deity, responsible for the creation of the Universe.In the sense of a divine creative principle...
- was the child or father of Nyx. Nyx is also the first principle in the opening chorus of
AristophanesAristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a prolific and much acclaimed comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays have come down to us virtually complete...
'
Birds, which may be Orphic in inspiration. Here she is also the mother of Eros. In other texts she may be the mother of
CharonIn Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon was the ferryman of Hades who carried souls of the newly deceased across the River Styx that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a...
(with
ErebusIn Greek mythology, Erebus , also Erebos or Erebes , was the son of a primordial god, Khaos, and represented the personification of darkness and shadow, which filled in all the corners and crannies of the world. His name is used interchangeably with Tartarus and Hades since Erebus is often thought...
), and
PhthonusIn Greek mythology, Phthonus was the personification of jealousy and envy, especially in matters of love. He was said to be the counterpart of Nemesis. The god had a great many wives but killed each one eventually, on suspicions of adultery. However, his power influenced not only him and mortals,...
"envy" (with
DionysusIn classical mythology, Dionysus or Dionysos is the god of wine, the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy, and a major figure of Greek mythology, and one of the twelve Olympians, amongst whom Greek mythology treated him as a late arrival...
?).
The theme of Nyx's cave or house, beyond the ocean (as in Hesiod) or somewhere at the edge of the
cosmosThe Universe comprises everything that physically exists, the entirety of space and time, all forms of matter and energy, and the physical laws and constants that govern them...
(as in later Orphism) may be echoed in the philosophical poem of
ParmenidesParmenides of Elea was an ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Italy. He was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy. Parmenides was also a priest of Apollo and iatromantis. The single known work of Parmenides is a poem which has survived only in...
. The classical scholar
Walter BurkertWalter Burkert , a scholar of Greek mythology and cult, is an emeritus professor of classics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and also has taught in the United Kingdom and the United States...
has speculated that the house of the goddess to which the philosopher is transported is the palace of Nyx; this hypothesis, however, must remain tentative.
There is also rumor that Nyx gave birth to her reincarnation, a son whose name would also be Nyx. But she gave birth to twins, having a daughter as well, who was named
HemeraIn Greek mythology Hemera was the personification of day and one of the Protogenoi or primordial deities. She is the goddess of the daytime and, according to Hesiod, the daughter of Erebos and Nyx . Hemera is remarked upon in Cicero's De Natura Deorum, where it is logically determined that Dies ...
, "Day". The text implied that Hemera was not the sister of Aether, but the sister of Nyx's reincarnation.
Cults of Nyx
In Greece, Nyx is only rarely the focus of cults. According to
PausaniasPausanias was a Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century AD, who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. He is famous for his Description of Greece , a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from firsthand observations, and is a crucial link between...
, she had an oracle on the acropolis at
MegaraMegara is an ancient city in Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens. Megara was one of the four districts of Attica, embodied in the four mythic sons of King...
.
More often, Nyx lurks in the background of other cults. Thus there was a statue called "Nyx" in the
Temple of ArtemisThe Temple of Artemis , also known less precisely as Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to Artemis completed— in its most famous phase— around 550 BC at Ephesus . Though the monument was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, only foundations and sculptural fragments of the...
at
EphesusEphesus was an ancient Roman and Greek city on the west coast of Anatolia, near present-day Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League during the Classical Greek period....
. The
SpartaSparta was a city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the River Eurotas in the southern part of the Peloponnese. From c. 650 BC it rose to become the dominant military power in the region and as such was recognized as the overall leader of the combined Greek forces during the Greco-Persian Wars...
ns had a cult of Sleep and Death, conceived of as twins. Cult titles composed of compounds of
nyx- are attested for several gods, most notably
DionysusIn classical mythology, Dionysus or Dionysos is the god of wine, the inspirer of ritual madness and ecstasy, and a major figure of Greek mythology, and one of the twelve Olympians, amongst whom Greek mythology treated him as a late arrival...
Nyktelios "nocturnal" and
AphroditeAphrodite is the Greek goddess of love, beauty and raw sexuality. According to Greek poet Hesiod, she was born when Cronus cut off Ouranos's genitals and threw them into the sea, and from the aphros arose Aphrodite.Because of her beauty other gods feared that jealousy would interrupt the peace...
Philopannyx "who loves the whole night".
Astronomy
On June 21 2006, the
International Astronomical UnionThe International Astronomical Union is a collection of professional astronomers, at the Ph.D. level and beyond, active in professional research and education in astronomy...
renamed one of
PlutoPluto, formal designation 134340 Pluto, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun...
's recently discovered moons (S/2005 P 2) to
NixNix is a natural satellite of Pluto. It was discovered along with Hydra in June 2005 by the Hubble Space Telescope Pluto Companion Search Team, composed of Hal A. Weaver, S. Alan Stern, Max J. Mutchler, Andrew J. Steffl, Marc W. Buie, William J. Merline, John R. Spencer, Eliot F. Young, and Leslie A...
, in honor of Nyx. The name was spelled with an "i" instead of a "y", to avoid conflict with the
asteroidthumb|260px|right|[[253 Mathilde]], a [[C-type asteroid]] measuring about across. Photograph taken in 1997 by the [[NEAR Shoemaker]] probe.Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, especially in the inner Solar System; they are...
3908 Nyx3908 Nyx is an Amor and Mars-crosser asteroid. It was discovered by Hans-Emil Schuster on August 6, 1980 and is named after Nyx, the Greek goddess of the night, after which Pluto's moon Nix is also named...
.
Children of Nyx
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- By Erebus
In Greek mythology, Erebus , also Erebos or Erebes , was the son of a primordial god, Khaos, and represented the personification of darkness and shadow, which filled in all the corners and crannies of the world. His name is used interchangeably with Tartarus and Hades since Erebus is often thought...
, the primeval DarknessDarkness is the absence of light. Scientifically it is only possible to have a reduced amount of light. The emotional response to an absence of light has inspired metaphor in literature, symbolism in art, and emphasis....
- Eros
Eros , in Greek mythology, was the primordial god of lust, beauty, love, and intercourse; he was also worshipped as a fertility deity. His Roman counterpart was Cupid, "desire", also known as Amor, "love". In some myths, he was the son of the deities Aphrodite and Ares, but according to Plato's...
Lust, Love, Intercourse
- Aether
Aether , in Greek mythology, is one of the Protogenoi, the first-born elemental gods. He is the personification of the upper sky, space, and heaven, and is the elemental god of the "Bright, Glowing, Upper Air." He is the pure upper air that the gods breathe, as opposed to the normal air mortals...
- Charon
In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon was the ferryman of Hades who carried souls of the newly deceased across the River Styx that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a...
- Hemera
In Greek mythology Hemera was the personification of day and one of the Protogenoi or primordial deities. She is the goddess of the daytime and, according to Hesiod, the daughter of Erebos and Nyx . Hemera is remarked upon in Cicero's De Natura Deorum, where it is logically determined that Dies ...
- Styx
Styx may refer to:* Styx , the river that forms the boundary between the Greek underworld and the world of the living, as well as a goddess and a nymph that represent the river.-Popular culture:* Styx , an American rock band...
(but also said to be a daughter of OceanusOceanus was believed to be the world-ocean in classical antiquity, which the ancient Romans and Greeks considered to be an enormous river encircling the world. Strictly speaking, Okeanos was the ocean-stream at the Equator in which floated the habitable hemisphere...
and TethysIn Greek mythology, Tethys , daughter of Uranus and Gaia was an archaic Titaness and aquatic sea goddess, invoked in classical Greek poetry but no longer venerated in cult. Tethys was both sister and wife of Oceanus...
).
- Epiphron
In Greek mythology, Epiphron was the son of Erebus and Nyx; he was the daimon or spirit of prudence, shrewdness, thoughtfulness, carefulness and sagacity....
- By parthenogenesis
Parthenogenesis is an asexual form of reproduction found in females where growth and development of embryos occurs without fertilization by a male. In plants, parthenogenesis means development of an embryo from an unfertilized egg cell, and is a component process of apomixis...
- Apate
Apate was the daughter of Nyx in Greek mythology. She was the personification of deceit, and was one of the evil spirits released from Pandora's box. Her Roman equivalent was Fraus, which is where the word 'fraud' originated...
Deceit
- Ker
In Greek mythology, the Keres were female death-spirits. The Keres were daughters of Nyx, and as such the sisters of Fate , Doom , Death and Sleep , Strife , Old Age , Divine Retribution , Charon, and other personifications...
, KeresIn Greek mythology, the Keres were female death-spirits. The Keres were daughters of Nyx, and as such the sisters of Fate , Doom , Death and Sleep , Strife , Old Age , Divine Retribution , Charon, and other personifications...
Fates of death
- Momos Blame, mockery, gaiety
- Moros
In Greek mythology, Moros is the personification of impending doom, who drives every being, mortal or otherwise, to its fated doom. Very little is known about him, but he is thought to be omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent, and not even Zeus can defeat him...
Doom.
- Oizys
In Greek mythology, Oizys is the goddess of distress, worry, and anxiety. She is the daughter of Nyx, the goddess of night and the twin of the god Momos. Her Latin name is Miseria, from which the English word 'misery' is derived....
Misery
- Oneiroi
In Greek mythology, the Oneiroi were the brothers or sons of Hypnos, the god of sleep. They were personifications of dreams—black-winged daemons—and were said to live on the shores of the Ocean in the far West, in a cavern near the border of Hades...
Dreams
- Philotes
Philotes may refer to:* Philotes , a minor Greek Goddess, the personification of affection. She belongs in a group of several deities of love: Agape , Philia , Eros and Storge * Philotes, plural form of fictional particle in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series...
Pleasure of love, friendship
- Thanatos
In Greek mythology, Thánatos was the daemon personification of Death. He was a minor figure in Greek mythology, often referred to but rarely appearing in person...
Death
- Eris
Eris is the Greek goddess of strife, her name being translated into Latin as Discordia. Her Greek opposite is Harmonia, whose Latin counterpart is Concordia. Homer equated her with the war-goddess Enyo, whose Roman counterpart is Bellona...
Strife or Spite
- Geras
In Greek mythology, Geras was the god of old age. It was considered a virtue whereby the more gēras a man acquired, the more kleos and arete he was considered to have. According to Hesiod, Gēras was a son of Nyx. Hyginus adds that his father was Erebus. He was depicted as a tiny shrivelled up...
Old Age
- Hypnos
In Greek mythology, Hypnos was the personification of sleep; the Roman equivalent was known as Somnus. His twin was Thánatos ; their mother was the goddess Nyx . His palace was a dark cave where the sun never shines...
Sleep
- Nemesis
In Greek mythology, Nemesis , also called Rhamnousia/Rhamnusia at her sanctuary at Rhamnous north of Marathon, was the spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to hubris, vengeful fate personified as a remorseless goddess. The name Nemesis is related to the Greek word νέμειν, meaning...
Retribution
- Hesperides
In Greek mythology, the Hesperides are nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world, located near the Atlas mountains in Tanger, Morocco at the edge of the encircling Oceanus, the world-ocean....
- Phanes
Phanes , or Protogonos , was the mystic primeval deity of procreation and the generation of new life, who was introduced into Greek mythology by the Orphic tradition; other names for this Classical Greek Orphic concept included Ericapaeus and Metis...
- By Uranus
- Lyssa
Lyssa was the Greek goddess of rabies and mad rage. She was one of the Maniae , a nurse of Eros and a daughter of Nyx, who was impregnated by the blood from the wound of the castrated Uranus...
Madness
See also
- Greek mythology in popular culture
- Antaeus :* In Dante's The Divine Comedy, Antaeus is a giant who guards the ninth circle of Hell, and lowers Dante and Virgil down to the iced-over Cocytus.* One of the stories of the Tanglewood Tales features Antaeus and the Pygmies ....
- Nix (disambiguation)
Nix is a water creature in German and Scandinavian folklore.It may also refer to:-People:*Bern Nix, U.S. jazz guitarist*Don Nix, U.S. songwriter, composer, arranger, musician, and author...
- List of night deities
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