Nye

Nye also know as Mother Night or Nyx the personification of the night, her name means "the mother night." A shadowy figure, Nye stood at or near the beginning of creation beside her father Chaos and mothered other personified deities such as Hypnos(Sleep) and Thanatos (Death), with Erebus (Darkness). Her appearances are sparse in surviving mythology, but reveal her as a figure of such exceptional power and beauty that she is feared by Zeus himself.
She is depicted as a goddess draped in long flowing black robes that are coated with the void of space and glimmering distant stars. Her appearances in mythology are sparse, but reveal her as a figure of exceptional power. In ancient art Nyx was depicted as a either a winged goddess or charioteer, sometimes crowned with an aureole of dark mists.
Category:Deity
Category:Primordial
Category:Female Character
Category:Death & Underworld Deity
Category:Mythology