Ancient Greek Goddess of the Night - Nix (Nikta) modern version

This artwork was created in the style of realism

NIKTA, NIKS, NYUKTA (ancient Greek Νύξ, Latin Nox)

In ancient Greek mythology, the goddess of the night🌌. Nikta (literally "night"), the personification of the night, refers to the first-born deities. Nikta was a spawn of Chaos.

Nikta's dwelling was located in the abyss of Tartarus (Hesiod. Theog., 744-745; or in Erebus, see: Eurip. Or., 174). According to Hesiod, in this place (on the threshold of Tartarus) Day meets with Night, and from here they, replacing each other, go around the earth.

Nikta was, first of all, a mythographic goddess, her cult is almost unknown, but the oracles of Nikta existed in Megara (Paus., I, 40, 6) and in Delphi (Plut. De sera, 28, 556c); the testimonies of Virgil (Aen., VI, 249-251) and Ovid (Fast., I, 455-456) have been preserved about the sacrifices to Nikta.

The identification of Nikta in Greek and Roman art is a difficult problem, since her image did not have a canonical form.