<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c9f0d755-7b02-4af5-bbed-45e54ac1cbe4/9EC59F90-153E-4A77-9AA4-2E8764AC1C45/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nyx&oldid=308074095" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nyx&oldid=308074095" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nyx&oldid=308074095"><P>In <A title="Greek mythology" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_mythology">Greek mythology</A>, <B>Nyx</B> (<SPAN lang="grc" xml:lang="grc">Νύξ</SPAN>, <B>Nox</B> in Roman translation) was the primordial <A title="Goddess" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goddess">goddess</A> of the night. A shadowy figure, Nyx stood at or near the beginning of creation, and was the mother of <A title="Personification" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personification">personified</A> <A title="God" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God">gods</A> such as <A title="Hypnos" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnos">Hypnos</A> (sleep) and <A title="Thanatos" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanatos">Thánatos</A> (death). Her appearances in mythology are sparse, but reveal her as a figure of exceptional power and beauty.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nyx&oldid=308074095"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/70865E99-190D-484E-A2FE-013CCF3D7676" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nyx&oldid=308074095">In <A title="Hesiod" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesiod">Hesiod</A>'s <A title="Theogony" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theogony">Theogony</A>, Nyx is born of <A title="Chaos (mythology)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_(mythology)">Chaos</A>; her offspring are many, and telling. With <A title="Erebus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erebus">Erebus</A> the deity of shadow and darkness, Nyx gives birth to <A title="Aether (mythology)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_(mythology)">Aether</A> (atmosphere) and <A title="Hemera" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemera">Hemera</A> (day). Later, on her own, Nyx gives birth to <A title="Momus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momus">Momus</A> (blame), <A title="Ponos" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponos">Ponos</A> (toil), <A title="Moros" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moros">Moros</A> (fate), <A title="Thanatos" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanatos">Thanatos</A> (death), <A title="Hypnos" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnos">Hypnos</A> (sleep), <A title="Charon (mythology)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(mythology)">Charon</A> (the ferryman of Hades),<SUP title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from January 2009" class="noprint Template-Fact">[<I><A title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</A></I>]</SUP> the <A title="Oneiroi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneiroi">Oneiroi</A> (dreams), the <A title="Hesperides" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperides">Hesperides</A>, the <A class="mw-redirect" title="Keres (mythology)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keres_(mythology)">Keres</A> and <A class="mw-redirect" title="Fates" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fates">Fates</A>, <A title="Nemesis (mythology)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(mythology)">Nemesis</A> (retribution), <A title="Apate" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apate">Apate</A> (deception), <A title="Philotes (mythology)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philotes_(mythology)">Philotes</A> (friendship), <A title="Geras" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geras">Geras</A> (age), and <A title="Eris (mythology)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(mythology)">Eris</A> (strife).</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nyx&oldid=308074095"><P>In Greece, Nyx is only rarely the focus of cults. According to <A title="Pausanias (geographer)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)">Pausanias</A>, she had an oracle on the acropolis at <A title="Megara" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megara">Megara</A>.<SUP class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><A href="#cite_note-0"><SPAN>[</SPAN>1<SPAN>]</SPAN></A></SUP></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9EC59F90-153E-4A77-9AA4-2E8764AC1C45/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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