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Night

deity underworld Greek single tradition · 3

Night is a goddess who possessed a cave in which the infant Zeus was raised by the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida according to the Orphic Rhapsodies. The Kouretes guarded the entrance to her cave.

↻ synthesized from 3 sources

When

First attested
100 BCE
Attested period
-100 – 1375
Historical notes
Appears in Orphic Rhapsodies, dated to 1st century BC or 1st century AD.

Relationships

parent of
Charon
consort of
Erebus
co occurs with
Chingichngish, Quaoar, Wiyot, Zeus, Hera, Cronus, Amalthea, Oceanus, Rhea, Kouretes, Adrasteia, Ida, Melissa

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (3)
  1. Amalthea (mythology)
  2. Charon
  3. Quaoar (mythology)

Source passages

“her daughters by him, the nymphs Adrasteia and Ida, raised Zeus in the cave of the goddess Night while the Kouretes guarded its entrance”

#8982 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“In Genealogia Deorum Gentilium, the Italian Renaissance writer Giovanni Boccaccio wrote that Charon, who he identified as the god of time, was a son of Erebus and Night. The idea appears to have originated from the similarity between the names "Charon" and "Chronos"”

#14250 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Wiyot's murder brought death into the world, and as a consequence, the male creator Night divided the first human ancestors into distinct peoples, assigning them languages and territories.”

#20508 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001