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Kinuko Y. Craft @kinukoycraft_official

Cupid & Psyche on pg. 173 of “Visions of Beauty”

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The Holy Spirit.

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“She who births the stars, She who bleeds with the moon, Great Mother, I am Yours—body, breath, and bone. In the silence, I hear You. In the fire, I rise. Let the wisdom of my foremothers open my eyes.”

Repeat it three times, slowly, letting your voice vibrate through your chest. If it feels right, you may place one hand on your womb and the other on your throat, linking your power and your voice—two things patriarchy has tried to sever.

Say this each day, and watch how the world begins to shimmer with Her presence again.

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With Her Seven Sisters l NASA APOD

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Neith the great, Mother of god, Lady of Esna, who creates rays of light, and dispels darkness; She who clothes the sun disk with her radiance, as she rises, so she illumined, and her luminosity allows one to perceive another. She is Nut of Akhty, he rises and he sets in her; being infinite, her limits are unknowable.

Excerpt from Esna 421 from The Temple of Esna. An Evolving Translation: Esna IV translated by David Klotz

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"Nyx, the Primordial Goddess of the Night. May the moonlight guide us all in our darkest"

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i know shes there. 🖤

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appreciation post for Nyx

She wasn’t worshiped widely and mostly cults worshiped her, but she’s in fact a very sweet Goddess even through the dark myths told, she’s one of my Patrons, it’s hard to get up at night to worship her, but she deserves some attention. hope those caught your eye

hope everyone has a good day 🌙

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The Goddess Nyx and the Muse Urania

''Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."

The Old Astronomer and His Pupil by Sarah Williams

Nyx, the Greek Goddess of primordial Night, dark mother of mysteries, dressed in stars, subduer of gods and men, who even mighty Zeus himself stood in awe of.

Urania, Goddess of astronomy, astrology and philosophy. Her gaze ever fixed on the the infinite universe. Muse to those who seek to divine the stars, expand the mind, and unravel the mysteries of the heavens.

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MYTHOLOGY MOODBOARDS • NYX for anonymous

“The great roots of night grow suddenly from your soul, and the things that hide in you come out again”. — Pablo Neruda, from The Light Wraps You.

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Our Lady, Queen of the Universe 🌟

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Like. Ok there is no real evidence for a Proto-Indo-European deity/personification of night, and while Nott, Nyx (also Nox but she's. y'know. Roman), and Ratri do have some interesting points of comparison, those could easily just be A. coincidence, or B. a logical result of them being personifications of night

And there's a fairly good chance that if the PIE religion did have such a deity in their pantheon, they're one of the ones we'll never be able to confidently reconstruct

That said, I do like to think there was a Proto-Indo-European night goddess called Nókʷts (pronounced something like "nock-wuts" and literally meaning "Night") who, among other things:

Was old. As in "quite possibly the first being in creation"

Was scary. Night is when you might get murdered by wolves or demons or young men. It's a time you want to avoid if you can

... It's also the ideal time for clandestine meetings between lovers, stealing your neighbor's cows, and so on and so forth, so as scary as she was Nókʷts was also likely respected and possibly even venerated

Because of how old she was, if the Proto-Indo-Europeans did - as some theories claim - have a Cosmic Egg myth, Nókʷts was either one of the beings created when that egg hatched or she was the one who laid it in the first place

There doesn't seem to be much evidence of a Proto-Indo-European personification of desth - only a god of the dead - but there is a theory that the Norse Valkyries and Greek Keres have a common origin (though the names themselves are less likely to be connected, since as far as I'm aware the sound changes don't actually line up that well). If so, that origin might be some sort of Proto-Indo-European spirits of darkness that take the form of carrion birds to collect the souls of those slain in battle. Nókʷts could easily have been those spirits' mother

She had some sort of connection to Dyḗws, the Proto-Indo-European god of the daytime sky. Each tribe probably had its own tradition, so the exact nature of that connection probably varied. Dyḗws might be the son of Nókʷts, or her brother, or her lover, or some combination of the above, because gods

Nókʷts might also be the mother of H₂éwsōs, the dawn goddess, especially in the tellings where Nókʷts and Dyḗws are lovers

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“Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.”

Light Up Deer art by powerjah @powerjahrt

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Was messing around with Magic Eraser tools and removed the male gods from this image - I think it worked nicely!

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In a beginning;

There was the Night and all things were the Night and the Night was all things.

And within Her dark womb the Earth stirred and raised Her face to the Stars. And She fell in love with the Night.

And Night encircled Them both in a deep cerulean cloak and She became the Sky and She was reflected on Earth in the mirror of the Sea. And Their divine union stirred the waters.

And Love walked from the waves.

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Witold Pruszkowski - Falling Star, 1884.