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Nyks by Kathleen Cameron

PURCHASE AT photographic art NYX was the goddess of the night, one of the ancient Protogenoi (first-born elemental In the cosmogony of Hesiod she was born of Air (Khaos), and breeding with Darkness (Erebos) produced Light (Aither) and Day (Hemera), first components of the primeval Alone, she spawned a brood of dark spirits, including the three Fates, Sleep, Death, Strife and Nyx was a primeval goddess usually represented as simply the substance of night: a veil of dark veil of mist drawn forth from the underworld which blotted out the light of Aither (shining upper Her opposite number was Hemera (Day), who scattered the mists of night, or Eos, the goddess of the In ancient art Nyx was portrayed as a either a winged goddess or charioteer, sometimes crowned with an aureole of dark