FROM YOUR NYX
You live in a world, where
Rain and rich tints of color
On canvas merged and swirled.
Rain and rich tints of color
On canvas merged and swirled.
Your beauty ethereal
Born out of the soul’s grace
Entrances me, when I trace your books
In front of a winter fireplace!
Born out of the soul’s grace
Entrances me, when I trace your books
In front of a winter fireplace!
I become your Nyx, your night-goddess –
All blessed forms of your love;
In peace and tranquility I linger
In your cosmic alcove.
All blessed forms of your love;
In peace and tranquility I linger
In your cosmic alcove.
Nyx -- William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Nyx (Night; Nox in Latin) was born of Chaos. With Erebus (Darkness), she gives birth to Aether (Brightness) and Hemera (Day).Later, on her own, she gave birth to Moros (Doom, Destiny), Keres (Destruction, Death), Thanatos (Death), Hypnos (Sleep), the Oneiroi (Dreams), Momus (Blame), Oizys (Pain, Distress), the Moirai (Fates), the Keres, Nemesis (Indignation, Retribution), Apate (Deceit), Philotes (Friendship), Geras (Old Age), and Eris (Strife), and the Hesperides (the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunset). With Hypnos and Thantos, she lived in Tartarus, the deep abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked, but left every day as Hemera entered. But according to Orpheus, the poet/musician who founded the Orphic mystery cult, she was the primal force from which all creation emerged and was a cave-dwelling oracle; inside the cave Kronus (Time) was chained, asleep and drunk on honey, and outside Adrasteia clashed cymbals and beat upon her tympanon, moving the entire universe in an ecstatic dance to the rhythm of Nyx's chanting. In other Orphic hymns she was the daughter/mother/wife of Phanes, the hermaphrodte deity of light who emerged, entwined with a serpent, from a silver cosmic egg and gave birth to a universe; after his birth Nyx put him/her in Erebus' lap, and he mated with Chaos to create the birds; he was the inventor of procreation via sex; the 1st ruker of the deities, he abdicated in favor of Nyx, who then abdicated in favor of her son Uranos (Kronus seized the rule and was then displaced by Zeus).
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