NYX (Nox)

NYX (Nox).

Nyx, the daughter of Chaos, being the personification of Night, was,
according to the poetic ideas of the Greeks, considered to be the mother
of everything mysterious and inexplicable, such as death, sleep, dreams,
&c. She became united to Erebus, and their children were Aether and
Hemera (Air and Daylight), evidently a simile of the poets, to indicate
that darkness always precedes light.

Nyx inhabited a palace in the dark regions of the lower world, and is
represented as a beautiful woman, seated in a chariot, drawn by two black
horses. She is clothed in dark robes, wears a long veil, and is
accompanied by the stars, which follow in her train.