Who is the Greek god for darkness girl?

Nyx, in Greek mythology, female personification of night but also a great cosmogonical figure, feared even by Zeus, the king of the gods, as related in Homer's Iliad, Book XIV.

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Who is the Greek god goddess of darkness?

Erebus, also spelled Erebos, in Greek religion, the god of a dark region of the underworld and the personification of darkness. Erebus is one of the primordial beings in the Greek creation myth. He is the son of Chaos, who is also the mother of Erebus's wife, Nyx, the personification of night.

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Who is the female Greek god of destruction?

In Hesiod's Theogony (270–273), Enyo also was the name of one of the Graeae, three sisters who shared one eye and one tooth among them; the other sisters were Deino ("Dread") and Pemphredo ("Alarm"). As goddess of war, Enyo is responsible for orchestrating the destruction of cities, often accompanying Ares into battle.

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Who is the female god of death?

Hel, in Norse mythology, originally the name of the world of the dead; it later came to mean the goddess of death. Hel was one of the children of the trickster god Loki, and her kingdom was said to lie downward and northward.

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Who is the female Greek god of Chaos?

Eris was the Greek goddess of chaos, strife and discord. She was the daughter of Zeus and Hera; according to other myths, she was the daughter of Nyx (dark night) alone. Her opposite was Harmonia. The equivalent Roman goddesses of Eris and Harmonia were Discordia and Concordia.

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Who is the most chaotic goddess?

Here are seven of the most significant from different cultures around the world:
  • Eris – The Greek Goddess of Chaos.
  • Chaos – The Roman God of Chaos (Kind of)
  • Apophis – The Egyptian God of Chaos.
  • Tiamat -The Mesopotamian Goddess of Chaos and The Sea.

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Who is the goddess of Chaos and evil?

ERIS was the goddess or personified spirit (daimona) of strife, discord, contention and rivalry. She was often portrayed, more specifically, as the daimona of the strife of war, haunting the battlefield and delighting in human bloodshed.

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Who is the god of depression?

In Greek mythology, Oizys (/ˈoʊɪzɪs/; Ancient Greek: Ὀϊζύς, romanized: Oïzýs) is the goddess of misery, anxiety, grief, depression, and misfortune. Her Roman name is Miseria, from which the English word misery is derived.

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Who is the goddess of painful death?

In Greek mythology, the Keres (/ˈkɪriːz/; Ancient Greek: Κῆρες) were female death-spirits. They were the goddesses who personified violent death and who were drawn to bloody deaths on battlefields.

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Who is the goddess of killing?

THE PHONOI were the personified spirits (daimones) of murder, killing and slaughter. Their sisters, the Androktasiai, presided over battlefield slaughter while the Phonoi were spirits of murder and killing outside of war.

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Who is the Greek female underworld?

According to Greek Mythology, Persephone, the queen of the underworld, was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, the goddess of harvest and fertility. She was also called Kore, which means "maiden" and grew up to be a lovely girl attracting the attention of many gods.

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Is there a female god of the underworld?

Persephone: Greek Goddess of the Underworld.

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Who is the most powerful female goddess?

Shakti is one of the most powerful Hindu goddesses. She is even referred to as “The Great Divine Mother.” She is illustrated colorfully in art. She has multiple arms and their power in numbers is believed to hold a great force over humans.

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Is Nyx a dark goddess?

In later poets, with whom she is merely the personification of the darkness of night, she is sometimes described as a winged goddess (Eurip. Orest. 176), and sometimes as riding in a chariot, covered with a dark garment and accompanied by the stars in her course.

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Who is the real god of darkness?

In Greek mythology and Roman mythology, Erebus (/ˈɛrɪbəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἔρεβος, romanized: Érebos, "deep darkness, shadow"), or Erebos, is the personification of darkness and one of the primordial deities. Hesiod's Theogony identifies him as one of the first five beings in existence, born of Chaos.

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Who is the Greek god of death and darkness?

Thanatos, in ancient Greek religion and mythology, the personification of death. Thanatos was the son of Nyx, the goddess of night, and the brother of Hypnos, the god of sleep. He appeared to humans to carry them off to the underworld when the time allotted to them by the Fates had expired.

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Who is the goddess of insanity and death?

In Roman and Etruscan mythology, Mania (Manea) is the goddess of Spirits and Chaos. In Greek mythology, she is the goddess of insanity and madness (Maniae).

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Is there a goddess of pain?

In Greek mythology, Algea (Ancient Greek: Ἄλγεα; singular: Ἄλγος Algos) is used by Hesiod in the plural as the personification of pain, both physical and mental. They were the bringers of weeping and tears.

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Who is the goddess of decay?

Phthisis (Ancient Greek: Φθίσις, phthísis; 'wasting away'; Roman name; Tabes), one of the Nosoi/Pestis, was the personification/daemon of rot, decay and putrefaction, in Classical/Greco-Roman mythology.

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Who is god of loneliness?

Oizys was the god of loneliness and misery, so I'd expect they were pretty lonely (especially since very few people would have heard of them, I expect). Oizys was the god of loneliness and misery, so I'd expect they were pretty lonely (especially since very few people would have heard of them, I expect).

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Who is the Greek god of overthinking?

By the era of Greek philosophy in the 5th century BC, Metis had become the first deity of wisdom and deep thought, but her name originally connoted "magical cunning" and was as easily equated with the trickster powers of Prometheus as with the "royal metis" of Zeus.

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Who is the god of mental health?

Asclepius was said to be the son of the god Apollo, which would make Apollo Hygieia's grandfather (or father-in-law). Hygieia was said to be a companion to the goddess Aphrodite. She was strongly associated with Athena, particularly when she was worshipped as a goddess of mental health.

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Who is the 1st god in the world?

Brahma is the Hindu god of creation. Also known as the grandfather, he was the original creator of the universe. Due to his elevated rank, Brahma rarely appears in the picturesque myths in which gods take on human form and character.

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Who are the gods of insanity?

In Ancient Greek mythology, Maniae or Mania (Ancient Greek: Μανίαι/Μανία, romanized: Maniae/Mania) are the spirits personifying insanity, madness, and crazed frenzy. They operate closely with Lyssa, the spirit of rage and rabies, and like Lyssa, are presumed to be daughters of Nyx.

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Is Nyx the daughter of Chaos?

In Greek mythology, Nyx (/nɪks/ NIX; Ancient Greek: Νύξ Nýx, [nýks], "Night") is the goddess and personification of the night. In Hesiod's Theogony, she is the offspring of Chaos, and the mother of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Erebus (Darkness).

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