nox
n.
Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus (Chaos); counterpart of Greek Nyx
Greek Equivalents
Khaos = Air
Nyx = Night
Erebos = Darkness
Tartaros = Hell's Pit
Ge = Earth
Aer = Air
Ouranos = Heaven
Hypnos = Sleep
Thanatos = Death
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"At the beginning there was only Khaos, Nyx, Erebos, and deep Tartaros. Ge, Aer and Ouranos had no existence. Firstly, black-winged Nyx laid a germless egg in the bosom of the infinite deeps of Erebos, and from this, after the revolution of long ages, sprang the graceful Eros with his glittering golden wings." - Aristophanes, The Birds 685 "Hera/Katrina encountered Hypnos, the brother of Thanatos. Hypnos said to Hera/Katrina, 'That time I laid to sleep the brain in Zeus of the aegis and drifted upon him still and soft, but your mind was devising evil, and you raised along the sea the blasts of the racking winds, and on these swept him away to Kos, the strong-founded, with all his friends lost, but Zeus awakened in anger and beat the gods up and down his house, looking beyond all others for me, and would have sunk me out of sight in the sea from the bright sky had not Nyx who has power over gods and men rescued me. I reached her in my flight, and Zeus let be, though he was angry, in awe of doing anything to swift Nyx' displeasure." - Homer, The Iliad 14.231 
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