The Family of Nyx
- Nyx
- The personification of night, not the daily interval of darkness but the great darkness that follows creation. She is immensely powerful and greatly feared by man and god.
- Erebus
- The darkness under the Earth, throught which the dead had to pass to reach the underworld. Along with Nyx they bore Hemera the day.
- Hemera
- The personification of Day. She was the daughter of Night and Erebus, and the sister of Aether.
- Hypnos
- The god of sleep. The son of Nyx and brother of death, Thanatos, father of Morpheus, Iceus, and Phantasus, bringers of various types of dreams.
- Thanatos
- The god of death. He ws the son of Nyx and the brother of sleep anf even the gods hated him.