Nyx (i.e. Night), in the Greek mythology the goddess of night, the daughter of Chaos (q.v.), and the sister of Erebos (q.v.), one of the very first of created beings, the terror of gods, and by Erebos became the mother of Æther, pure light, and Hemera, daylight, as well as other entities of note.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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