Nyx (“Night”) is the Greek goddess and personification of night. A shadowy figure, Nyx stood at or near the beginning of creation and mothered other personified deities, such as Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death), with Erebus (Darkness). She is the first child of Chaos. She is typically portrayed as either a winged goddess with a dark cloud halo or dressed in black surrounded by dark mist. Her Roman equivalent is Nox. Nyx was worshiped by the early Orphic people. Their hymns portray her as the parent of all life. Her offerings consist of black animals that were burned and buried. Nyx is also worshiped today by practicing Pagans and Wiccans. Their offerings to the goddess include items like night-blooming flowers, moonstone, agate, and other things relating to the moon and night itself. Work with Nyx is done at night and typically includes shadow work and divination.
Appearance List Literature: Hesiod’s Theogony (c. 730-730 BC), Homer’s Iliad (c. 8th century BC), Aristophanes’ The Birds (414 BC), Virgil’s Aeneid (29-19 BC), Ovid’s Fasti (8 AD), William Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1873).
Description Nyx (“Night”) is the Greek goddess and personification of night. A shadowy figure, Nyx stood at or near the beginning of creation and mothered other personified deities, such as Hypnos (Sleep) and Thanatos (Death), with Erebus (Darkness). She is the first child of Chaos. She is typically portrayed as either a winged goddess with a dark cloud halo or dressed in black surrounded by dark mist. Her Roman equivalent is Nox. Nyx was worshiped by the early Orphic people. Their hymns portray her as the parent of all life. Her offerings consist of black animals that were burned and buried. Nyx is also worshiped today by practicing Pagans and Wiccans. Their offerings to the goddess include items like night-blooming flowers, moonstone, agate, and other things relating to the moon and night itself. Work with Nyx is done at night and typically includes shadow work and divination.
