Nyx - Goddess of Night

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Goddess of Night Nyx is the goddess of all vampyres and night, in the House of Night series. She is the personification of Night and is known by many names including Gaia, the name of the Earth Mother. In vampyre history, Nyx has been worshipped by all vampyres as the goddess of night since ancient times by means of rituals such as the Full Moon Ritual, held in her honor each Full Moon. There is a temple dedicated to her in every House of Night. Vampyres also honor her by living in a matriarchal society, where women have the rule, but men are honored and respected as guardians and companions. Once Nyx has given a fledgling or vampyre a gift (called an affinity), she never takes it back. Those who are given such abilities often excel in society, becoming high priestesses or warriors. Nyx's greatest gift for her children, though, is free will, as she often says herself. Nyx's had a consort Erebus that she loved.Kalona was her Oath sworn warrior who was banished from her realm (Nym's Grove) for loving her too much. She banished his body. He goes back to the realm as a spirit under Neferet's orders in Burned to keep Zoey's soul trapped. When he does so Nyx comes and banishes his body and spirit. Nyx is pivotal in the creation myth of the theology of the Orphic-Dionysic Mysteries. The ancients believed that before the universe was created there existed only a void of chaos that was black and silent. From this chaos rose the first deity, Nyx, also called Mother Night. She is said to have been in the form of a great black winged spirit. Nyx then conceived of the wind and laid a silver egg in the darkness. The upper part of the egg was the sky and the lower section was the earth. Nyx actually came from the earliest times of Greek mythology (These earlier divinities have names that correspond directly to elements of the natural world, like Gaia, Ouranos, Pontos, Nyx,
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