a-gnosis: If there was any person with some kind of authority in the Underworld before Hades receive
a-gnosis:If there was any person with some kind of authority in the Underworld before Hades received it as his share, it was Nyx, the goddess of night. Nyx is really ancient. According to Hesiod, she was born from Chaos and was one of the first things that came into being. In Aristophanes’s The Birds, she is described as the mother of Eros and that she was present from the very beginning, before even earth existed. Nyx gave birth to a whole bunch of daimones and minor gods, either by herself or together with Erebus, the god of darkness. In my version it was she who found and took care of the Erinyes (according to Aeschyluls’s Eumenides, they are indeed daughters of Nyx) . They don’t know who their real parents were, but they like the story of how they were born when the blood from Ouranos’s cut off testicles fell on Gaia. -- source link
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