![]() Notus (South wind, bringer of the storms of late summer and autumn).Boreas (North wind, bringer of cold winter air).One of many Greek mythology groups with an incomplete list of names. Nymphs of glens, pleasant woods and groves 2*. Despite being giants, the Aloadae, with just two members are one of the smallest Greek mythology groups. The Aloadae are often confused with the Gigantes in the Gigantomachy 97*. After catching and defeating the Thracians on the island of Naxos they stayed and ruled over the Thracians but killed each other in a dispute between them.Pausanias states the Aloadae introduced the cult of the Muses to Mount Helicon in Boeotia which they consecrated to them and founded the town of Ascra. Alternatively Diodorus reports the Aloadae were sent by their father Aloeus to rescue their mother Iphimedeia and daughter Pancratis, who had been carried off by Thracians. Hyginus substitutes Apollo as the stag instead of Artemis. According to Pindar, Artemis appears in the form of a stag, on the island of Naxos, runs between them, they both threw their spears and end up killing each other. This is consistent with Homer’s Odyssey concise version which says Apollo destroys them before their beards began to appear. Apollodorus says they were tied to pillars, by serpents, facing away from each other and perpetually tortured by the shrieks of Styx in the form of an owl in Hades. According to Homer they managed to abduct Ares and imprison him in a bronze jar for a lunar year (13 months) where he would have died but was secretly released by Hera who was tipped off by Eriboea, stepmother of Otus and Ephialtes.Their death is unclear. After piling Mount Ossa and Mount Pelion on top of Mount Olympus they, according to Apollodorus, threatened to change land into sea and sea into land. ![]() The Aloadae planned an audacious attack on Mount Olympus to gain Hera for Ephialtes and Artemis for Otus. They were called the Aloadae after their stepfather. Every month they grew nine fingers taller and, aged 9, they were 9 fathoms (16.5m or 54ft tall. The Aloadae were strong, handsome and daring giants. or Aloeus and Iphimedeia 11*(daughter of Triopas of Thessaly).Occasionally, other children were named by these other sources where there were no contradictions including the goddess Eleos, personification of compassion, Sophrosyne, moderation, Epiphron, prudence, and Hybris, insolence although, aside from Hybris, these deities were not in keeping with the dark nature of most children of Nyx. Similar contradictions occur with the naming of Hecate, goddess of magic, (Perses and Asteria), the Erinyes, The Furies (Gaia from blood of Ouranos), Deimos, fear, (Aphrodite and Ares), Ponos, hard labour, (Eris), Styx, (Oceanus and Tethys), Eros, love or procreation (Aphrodite or Chaos), Dolos, trickery (Aether and Gaia), and Eurphrosyne, one of the Charites, (Zeus and Euronyme), as children of Nyx. Similarly, in the Orphic tradition, the Astra Planeta, the gods of the Wandering Stars, were also children of Nyx, but again more commonly these gods were the children of Astraeus, the Titan god of the Stars, and Eos (Dawn). In the Orphic tradition, Ouranos, the Greek god of the Sky was named a child of Nyx, although more commonly Ouranos was considered to be a child of Gaia (Earth). ![]() Hesiod was of course not the only writer in antiquity to tell of the genealogy of the gods, and whilst many tell of the same children of Nyx as Hesiod, some also had names, whilst others also name other children which Hesiod told were offspring of other deities. Normally portrayed as a decrepit old man, Geras showed the dichotomy of the virtue of achieving an old age and the pain and infirmity that ultimately came with it. Geras – In Greek mythology, another son of Nyx was Geras, the personification of old age. Thanatos appeared regularly in Greek mythology for he was dispatched to take Sisyphus to the Underworld, before he was tricked by the king, and also Heracles would wrestle Thanatos to prevent Death from taking Alcestis away. Thanatos though was specifically the Greek god of non-violent death, for violent death was more the dominion of the Keres. Thanatos - Hypnos had a twin brother in the form of Thanatos, the Greek god of Death. Hypnos’ name of course lives on today in English words such as Hypnosis, but in Greek mythology Hypnos was considered to be a companion of his mother, bring rest each night to mortals, and as such resided in a cave in Tartarus near to Nyx.Īmongst the most famous tales of Hypnos are those when he is put to use by Hera, as Hera attempts to put her husband Zeus into deep sleeps. Hypnos – Amongst the most famous of all children of Nyx was Hypnos, the Greek god of Sleep.
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