Night, as we know it, is the dawn of mysteries, of wonders sparking the mind, eliciting wishes that wander across the darkness, where the scenes of the clouds are drapiered with the ardent night; misting the strongest of minds. Night, as the Greek know it, is the inception of the Gods.
Primordial force of Creation; As the void filled the emptiness, as Chaos birthed Night.
Goddess Nyx (Νῠ́ξ), Daughter of Chaos, and Sister of Erebus, Mother of Aether, and Goddess of the Night.
Mother of Gods and men, Mother of Dreams and Giver of Sleep.
Benevolent Goddess, Feared by all, Desired by all.
Dispeller of Fear, Birther of Light.
In the Greek creation story, one of the first elements to come into being was the Night. Represented as the Goddess Nyx, it is one of the primordial elements from which everything else, including the gods, was created.
Nyx is central to Greek Mythology and specifically the Creation of the Universe.
The Celestial Goddess is believed to have birthed everything in the Universe; Light (Aether) and Day (Hermera), brought forth to Life through her, where Gaea only came after.
“She in her turn bore Gaia and broad Ouranos [Uranus]" (frag. 109 in Guthrie, 80)
She is the very expression of Infinite. The night sky- vast, beginning-less, the never ending, and the formless. The very process of creation starts with the Night, the black-hole (Space-Time continuum), the transcendence of Night to dawn is the very blueprint of cosmos. Matter and Creation happened in the darkness of the Night.
She is the first principle being from which all Creation emerges.
Ancient Greek Mythology creates a variance of Creation stories, but one thing that stands out is that Goddess Nyx is always present at the beginning.
The World in empty darkness, often referred to as Chaos, was populated only by the black-winged bird, Nyx. After a time, Nyx laid a golden egg which hatched to reveal Eros, the God of Love. The shell of the Egg separated into two halves, where one part ascended to become the sky and the other became the Earth. Eros named the Sky Uranus and the Earth Gaea.
Orphic Mythology brings us into the Cave of Nyx; where the first-born God Phanes, force of the Light, created the Cosmos from; Revealing in her cave what pre-exists; creating or revealing the universe, thus making possible what is revealed to develop to its potential.
Her Adyton; The Mighty Scepter and Prophecies.
Phanes created a mighty scepter which he gave to Nyx, the generative power that was passed down to Uranus and Kronos, where Zeus was the final keeper of it.
Bestowed upon her was the gift of prophecy; the art of prophecy to bear the truth in every way. (Orphic frag. 103.) (88)
Orphic literature depicts the Goddess in her cave from which she gave more accurate prophecies than any other god was capable of.
Orphic Theogony
In the Orphic theogony, it is clear that Nyx/Night initially held sway over all the gods (frag. 111 in Guthrie [1952] 1993, 138). She reared Cronus, or Time (frag. 129 in Guthrie, 139), who, with Rhea/Demeter, subsequently became the father of Zeus (frags. 144, 145 in Guthrie, 139).
Those initiated into the Orphic mysteries learned that Nyx, rather than Chaos, was the primordial form from which all other life and matter was born. All things began in the night.
Other Legends of Greek Mythology depict her as a sister of the Primordial Forces Gaea and Tartarus, making her a primordial goddess herself. Nevertheless, it stands out how Goddess Nyx is one of the earliest forces with her ever presence; bringing the realms of creation and potential into the universe.
Goddess Nyx is the embodiment of Night itself, though she is often depicted as the black-winged bird or a beautiful woman en-robed in dark mists with starlit eyes,
She was understood to be Night itself.
Nyx then is the night and her powers are related to everything that “comes from the night”, such as mystery, fear, surprise, death, the end, and all what is associated with it. Although directly related to the “nocturnal” and dark elements, Nyx also shows mastery over light and powers such as giving life, illuminating darkness, and bringing fertility.
She is one of the most powerful Goddesses that Zeus himself feared, and contrary to what is known as Nyx being the only Goddess he feared, it is only Aphrodite and Nyx that Zeus knew not to cross or enrage.
Mother, highest of Gods. Rigoglioso, M. (2010). Virgin Mother Goddesses of Antiquity
Nyx/Night’s older, first-place status in the Orphic theogony is indicated in the later-born god Zeus’s referring to her reverently as “Mother, highest of the gods” and “immortal” (frag. 164 in Guthrie, 139). Even Homer (Iliad 14.259) presents Nyx/Night as a formidable power who was superior to the gods. Moreover, that Nyx/Night (darkness) would precede Phanes (light) in the procession of cosmological developments corresponds with the order of events in other neighboring cosmogonies (see, e.g., Genesis 1:1–5)
But while she is the Goddess of Night with the fearful presence, she is also very benevolent, as the bringer of Day and Light from which Love came from; Goddess Nyx presents Self-Assurance to the people who work with her; instilling her powerful presence into those who reach out to her; paving the ways open with her sheer presence.
She is the bringer of comfort, love, serenity, and rest.
As the Mother of 14 more powerful Gods, including Fate, Sleep, and Death, She plays an important role as the birther of another order of the universe.
Her most important children, Aether and Hemera, are born from her union with Erebus. Darkness and Night gave rise to their opposites, Brightness and Day, in one of the first dualities of cosmic balance that would become important in Greek philosophy.
The mysterious and the unknowable is the domain of the Greek Goddess Nyx. She shows you the veils that may not part for you at this time, as well as the ones that pave the ways open for you.
Inviting the Goddess:
Nyx as the Fearsome Goddess: She inspires great fear, like the fearsome aspects of the Night she is, Goddess Nyx grants us her own presence to be our own.
She also helps to dispel our own fears, transmuting fears into personal empowerment, Respect, and a strong self-assured presence.
She paves the way open for us, letting us have our way, as we are now able to access and handle darkness, amongst the unpleasant hidden things, and through her sheer presence transferred to us.
Especially in a business setting.
Mother of Goddess and Men: She transforms us with her primordial authority powers and our capability of possessing her authoritarian power.
Nyx- her Kypris: She brings into us her otherworldly beauty and her exceptional desirability.
She draws her own energies into our own sexual empowerment, sexual expression, and sexual pleasure.
As she also creates the environments of fertility and birth; gifting Life.
She brings sexual comfort and security, and specially while handling sexual tensions.
As she works on releasing all what brings tension, letting sexual comfort and security be all what we are encompassed in.
She transforms all what we fear into resources of creation, of vast spaces, filled with power, as she releases our fears around love and sex, as she opens our eyes to see our own beauty, now otherworldly, and desirability, now exceptional; releasing sexual fears around missing out, rejection, and absent-mindedness during sexual time.
Nyx- Prophecies and Psychic abilities:
As the bearer of truth, Goddess Nyx shows us the truth in all situations, in deceptions, lies, and subjective reality that doesn’t match the weaves of truth.
She grants us the power of prophecies, humility, and righteousness.
She helps us attain Clairvoyance, Claircognizance, Telepathy, as well as heightens and strengthens our intuition.
Recreation of the Night: At all times, Goddess Nyx imbues us, our environment, and our surroundings with the serenity of the Night, the flow of quiet peacefulness, and the luminous starlit presence
Enhanced sensory perception at night, allowing us to see and move better in the dark.
Nyx–the Mysteries: Goddess Nyx takes us into a consciousness expansion journey with all her powers, and specially during sleep, including taking us into her other realms.
As her residing home and her main realm, Goddess Nyx, if so she desires, allows us into her cave, her adyton, where all what pre-exists reveals itself.
Nyx- Goddess of the Night: At night, She envelops us with the energies of serenity and peacefulness, as she puts us into a calmer sleep, where she enrobes us with her rejuvenating and youthifying energies.
Shadow Work:
She is the Goddess of Mysteries, of the unknown, of all what stands in the veils.
She is the Jet-black Night in its darkness and grief, who holds the power of illumination and visibility, bringing everything you must face in the shadows out in the bright space.
Her powerful presence gives us oneness with the darkness and with the shadows, it’s not an awareness that challenges, but an awareness that is understood. Silence does not become a nuisance, or a distraction, but a place of spacious being. With her many forms, she allows us to transcend our dualities, our shadows and our darkness. She rids us of care and expectations, introducing us to a transcendent freedom; removing all our illusions, and our self-made shadows to clarity.
Together with Erebus, the God of Darkness, who brings sunlight into the darkest realms; Shining the light on our darkest selves, as the darkness now fuels our transformation.
Transforming us from a reactive state to a responsive one, with no interventions from the rushing human side.(healing of limbic brain)
Her relief is now carried on the burdens becoming weightless, with feather light perception and sensations.
Our darkness is now a source of empowerment, as the Darkness inside us is an archetype that needs to be integrated.
Surrender:
To higher power, to events, to life, to change and its forces
To become one with darkness;and into our own inner world.
She allows us to surrender to exploring the universe
As she induces feelings of you being alone with creation itself.
Nyx- Goddess of Protection:
Goddess ability to be hidden in the darkness, to be able to shrowd yourself and mould into it, and stay unnoticed and protected.
Inspired by the darkness of the Night, Nyx makes our presence vanish, as if our presence was darkness itself.
She makes us blend into the darkness of any situation we don’t wish to be present in.
And specially active when danger is sensed.
Shield of Nyx: A shield created by her, gleamed by her dark mists, and her shadows.
The Stare of Tartarus: while the goddess protects us from any malicious intentions, before it happens, on the occasion harm is intended from others, Tartarus is shown to the harmful intent.
Nyx- Delight of Serenity:
Goddess energy to silence our minds from the rushing thoughts, mental surroundings, stimulations, energies that we do not wish to have in our consciousness
She inspires serenity in our mental environment, as the baseline of our minds is now transformed to be endowed in Serenity
Nyx- Songs of Creativity:
Night has always been a time for inspiration, where Ancient Greek Gods of creativity amused the other Gods with their songs.
The Muses are known for bringing inspiration, knowledge, and creativity to artists, philosophers, and individuals.
Enchanting the goddess Nyx at night; the Muses sang their melodies to her.
Making her the source of inspiration and creativity
Additionally, she creates a room and space of creation, meant to be an internal environment as well as external environment feature.
Nyx- Mother of Eros:
Inspired by her role of protecting her son Hepnos, nurturing the six kings, and being the mother of Love, Goddess Nyx touches our hearts with her motherly love, enveloping us in the motherly sensations of ‘Everything is okay’,
As she helps us to step into our motherly sides, and melts all parental fragments away.
She flies into the Space of our Life, creating the necessary changes to heal relationships with parental figures.
the Story of Hypnos; into his Mother's cave.
The story begins with Hera asking Hypnos, God of Sleep, and sweet Sleep as referenced in the Homer Iliad, to put Zeus to sleep, for she wanted to bring misfortune onto Hercules, Zeus’ illegitimate son. And while Zeus withheld the greatest power, and was very little affected by Hypnos trials, the Sky overslept nonetheless. Nyx, knowing the wrath of the God of the Sky, shielded her son onto her Cave, her adyton.
But Zeus, when he awakened, was wroth, and flung the gods hither and thither about his palace, and me above all he sought, and would have hurled me from heaven into the deep to be no more seen, had Night not saved me—Night that bends to her sway both gods and men. [260] To her I came in my flight, and besought her, and Zeus refrained him, albeit he was wroth, for he had awe lest he do aught displeasing to swift Night. (Hom. Il. 14.242)
The Cosmic Egg:
A world mythology famous, The Cosmic Egg is said to be the Source itself. It is where Creation sprung from and onto the Universe.
Time and Necessity being the prerequisite forces of Creation.
She, is the Light
In the context of Necessity being a principal element of Creation, Orphic fragments refer to Phanes, the god of Light as seen only in the presence of Night. As it reads in Fragment 86 “none saw [him] . . . unless it were holy Night alone.” (Guthrie, 138) (86). Of necessity, precedence of Nyx as the first primordial force and being lies through,
in which She, is the Light.
“Of darkness, an egg, from the whirlwind conceived,
was laid by the sable-plumed Night.
And out of that egg, as the Seasons revolved,
sprang Eros, the entrancing, the bright.”
(Aristophanes, The Birds).
The Orphic egg is represented as an egg surrounded by a coiled serpent. It’s a symbol from the ancient Orphic Mysteries, the egg representing the cosmos, the serpent the creative spirit. The egg is also the soul of the philosopher, the serpent the mysteries. At the time of initiation the soul hatches from the egg, and is reborn from physical into spiritual existence.
Cosmic Egg: the Great Rebirth:
As She is the Goddess of the Night, Mother of all deities for death, day, and destruction; Consort of Darkness with its rebirth, Goddess Nyx lays her cosmic egg upon us. In there, a constant rebirth emerges.
Goddess Nyx is invited to envelop us in her own cosmic egg; down to the cellular level, and revitalizing the core of our being.
As she controls the cyclical rhythms of day and night, the goddess creates and maximizes our unique potential.
The Cosmic Egg is where we meet our truest essence, the real parts of who we are and what we are.
As it also allows us to see Life for what it is.
Inside the Cosmic Egg lies a space of Timelessness, transcending the dualities, illusions, and embracing the shadows within.
Melting away all our traumas, enveloping them with the Goddess energies.
And as she sees fit.
Timelessness is now expressed into our cellular energy, as Goddess Nyx preserves her youthifying effects with her ambrosial presence.
She instills her magic of formation into us, bringing fulfillment into our being, on all levels.
Within the cosmic egg, Goddess Nyx creates The Night Sky Portal in which she connects to us through her star-lit energies. She creates her own sacred space within us, a place to deeply meditate, connect, and guide us through to her.
The Cosmic Egg renews our Spirit, nourishes our soul, creates the magic of potential and creation within, reflecting all what the words stand into our lives.
The Serpent of the Cosmic Egg:
The entwined serpent of the cosmic egg is the representation of life force, unity, and infinity. Nyx brings the spirit of the Cosmic Serpent in embodiment, in nature, rebirth, creative spirit, life, and fertility. Sexual energy, lust and desire, awakened self and Spirit, and behavior.
Goddess Nyx as the Ruler- the Six Kings:
In Orphic Mythology, Phanes, the first-born God, laid his glorious staff in the hands of his daughter Nyx, and she received rulership of the entire dominion .Nyx is the only female deity to rule and she rules all the generations, something not possible if she did not possess something masculine herself. She is therefore in this way grouped along with the male kings. In turn, Ambrosial Nyx, after uniting with Phanes, gave birth to vast Ouranos and Gaea and was a nurturing mother to them.
The proposal here is to embody Nyx’s energy of Rulership, in all what the words mean and what the concept carries. A transfer of energies from the Goddess into us.
Nyx, as one of the six Kings, forms together with the other five the base or foundation of all forms, and all that comes after and what we know.*”
One way to look at the Six Kings as a form of Alchemy and Creation, where the quiet darkness is the alchemical space of creation, the weaves of which are all contained within the Night.
Orphic Theogny presents the succession of the Six Kings as the progression or evolution of the conduits of creation in its primary substances, which starts with Ýdohr (Hydor, Ὕδωρ), which is the ancient Greek word for “water.”
Orphéfs, the great Theologian, described the universe as an Egg emerging from a primordial mixture. Within this mixture exist two fundamental substances, Earth and Water. Of the classical elements, Pyr (Fire, Πῦρ) and Aithír (Aether, Αἰθήρ) are closely related to Water; they are all what are called ‘continuous’ substance.
These three elements have a quality in common and they can become one another, whereas the final element, Earth, always remains Earth. In the Orphic kozmogony, the progression of these kings begins with Aithír, a form of Water, and he is called Phánîs (Phanês, Φάνης), “he who reveals,” or Prôtogónos (Prôtogonus, Πρωτογόνος), the “First-Born” of the Gods.
The Morphic Altar:
Imagine a circle, with a slight opening where the Goddess is there; the circle lining is made of Owl feathers, and in the circle, crystals of Hematite, Onyx, and Labradorite are on all its sides, enhancing communication between the goddess and us.
The circle has a lot of uses, its main function is to build a medium of connection between the Goddess and us, enchanting her presence.
In addition, the circle is also used as a space of shadow work, where we could ask the Goddess to bring up, and make us aware of unresolved parts of ourselves that we either ignore or are subconscious… our demons, our darkness, what we’re afraid of deep down… what’s holding us down and back.
Gratitude for Blessings targeted to Goddess Nyx: For everything she provides; illumination, rest, peacefulness, serenity, darkness, and all what she encompasses.
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It is the world of abstracts, of primordial, of what is.
and all what encompasses.
depictions can bring a concept, or an understanding of one,
and the Night,
in its revelations, reveals itself in its eternity.
one with no start or end,
and one that is just…is.
(Tartarus 
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