Embrace the Goddess of the Night with the Sultry Blend of Vanilla, Cinnamon & Clove
 
In the silence. And in the velvety darkness…the voice of a goddess calls your name. Her voice is unsettling, yet comforting at the same time. One you can’t seem to explain. Her name is Nyx, and she was worshiped by the Ancient Greeks for thousands of years. Some believe she’s primordial – a creator goddess who has always been and always will be.
There are a few myths that mention Nyx. In Hesiod’s Theogony, Nyx is born as the personification of Night, emerging from Chaos. She couples with the personification of Darkness and gives birth to Doom (Moros), Death (Thanatos), Destruction (Keres), Fate(s) (The Moirai), Retribution (Nemesis), and a few others. Interestingly, most of her children are deities that personify human characteristics and experiences. Whereas she and her partner Darkness represent a force of nature. Hesiod also claims that Nyx lives in Tartarus, the Hell that exists below Hades…far below.
In Homer’s Iliad, Zeus the king of the gods, fears Nyx Goddess of Night and allows her son Hypnos to go free. Nyx has shown up a few more times in ancient poems: once as an Oracle and another time she’s gives birth to the Furies (Erinyes) with Hades, god of the Underworld. In addition to the Greek poems and mythos, Roman writers recorded hymns as offerings to Nyx Goddess of Night.
Any time the day ends and night falls, Nyx is present. You don’t have to call on her, as she’s literally all around you every night. However, sometimes Nyx will manifest in a physical, more corporeal form. And when she does, she typically resembles a large, black bird or a woman with black bird wings. Some sources claim Nyx will appear as a goth-looking woman wearing a black veil studded with stars (Judika Illes, 2009). When I see her, she comes to me as a beautiful mother with long, black hair, and steely gray eyes. She wears all black with silver accessories to mimic the color of the stars and moon.
We know Nyx is an illusive, mysterious deity associated with the Night. So what is her spiritual domain, exactly? There’s a few qualities modern day Nyx devotees claim are hers including the night time, darkness, chaos, creation, destruction, divination (particularly oracular trance and prophecy), love, motherhood, and the mysteries.
Every deity, like every person, has her own good and bad qualities. There has to be balance, even with deities like Nyx. As she’s presented as destruction and born of Chaos, she’s also the ancestress of every deity…she was there before creation. Before Gaia became Mother Earth and Uranus became the sky. This is probably why even Zeus fears her.