Hera then whips up a storm that wrecks Hercules' ships. She brainstorms a plan to destroy his ships on his way home from Troy and asks Hypnos to put Zeus in a deep sleep, so he is none the wiser. Hera, Zeus' wife and queen of the Olympian gods resented the Greek hero Hercules because he was Zeus' son from a mortal woman, Alcmene. In the Iliad by Homer, Nyx rescues her son Hypnos after he faces the wrath of Zeus. In Orphic creation stories, the egg represents the world, which is why it plays such a pivotal role in the creation of the gods and goddesses.

Eros then went on to create the rest of the world. From that egg sprang golden-winged Eros, the god of love. Twins Oizys (Misery, Depression and Anxiety) and Momos (Mockery, Scorn, and Blame) with ErebusĪristophanes tells us how Chaos, Night, Erebus and Tartarus (the Underworld) were the only ones in existence until black-winged Nyx laid an egg in the infinite depths of Erebus.Moros (Doom) (conceived without male intervention).The Hesperides (Daughters of the Evening) with Erebus (Some myths list their parents as Atlas and Hesperis or Phorcys and Ceto.).Eris (Discord and Strife) (In some myths, she is the daughter of Zeus and Hera.).As mentioned by Hesiod in the Theogony (1.209-42), Nyx's offspring includes: Nyx went on to have many children of her own: some who were kind-natured and others who were terrible. And Night in turn gave birth to Day and Space

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