MOROS, KER, THANATOS, HYPNOS, THE ONEIROI, MOMOS, OIZYS, HESPERIDES, THE KERES, THE MOIRAI, NEMESIS, APATE, PHILOTES, GERAS, ERIS (no father) (Hesiod Theogony 221)
THE ASTRA (Orphic Hymn 7) OFFSPRING DAIMONES OURANOS (Orphic Argonautica 12, Orphic Frag Deveni Papyrus) AITHER, HEMERA, EROS (by Erebos) (Cicero De Natura Deorum 3.17) EROS, AITHER (Aristophanes Birds 685 & 1190) HEMERA (by Khronos) (Bacchylides Frag 7) AITHER, HEMERA (by Erebos) (Hesiod Theogony 124, Cicero De Natura Deum 3.17) PHANES (Orphic Argonautica 12, Orphic Fragment 101) OFFSPRING PROTOGENOI KHAOS (Hesiod Theogony 123, Nonnus Dionysiaca 31.115) In ancient art Nyx was depicted as a either a winged goddess or charioteer, sometimes crowned with an aureole of dark mists. Her opposite number was Hemera (Day) who scattered the mists of night at dawn. Nyx was an ancient deity usually envisaged as the very substance of the night-a veil of dark mists drawn across the sky to obscure the light of Aither, the shining blue of the heavens. Alone she spawned a brood of dark spirits including the three Fates, Sleep, Death, Strife and Pain. She was a child of Khaos (Chaos, Air), and coupling with Erebos (Darkness) she produced Aither (Aether, Light) and Hemera (Day). NYX was the goddess of the night, one of the primordial gods ( protogenoi) who emerged as the dawn of creation. Night ( nyx, nyktos) Nyx goddess of night, Athenian black-figure lekythos C5th B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art
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