Nyx, the Only God Zeus Feared: Was She More Powerful Than Zeus? - Greek Mythology

0:00 2:30 Nyx's House5:00 Nyx's Children6:02 Nyx in the Iliad9:59 Nyx Vs ZeusHey everyone, welcome to Mythology explained. In today's video, we're going to discuss Nyx, a primordial deity and the personification of night, one of the most powerful goddesses, if not the most powerful goddess, in all of Greek mythology. First, we're going to look at what Greek mythology has to say about Nyx, which can be broken down into three parts: Nyx's role in the creation myth given in Hesiod's Theogony, Nyx's dark and shadowy house at the edge of creation, and some information about the Trojan War that dovetails into Nyx's near confrontation with Zeus in which she protects her son Hypnos and basically scares the king of the gods away. After covering Nyx's mythology, we're going to wrap the video up by comparing Nyx and Zeus to see which of the two is more powerful, to see whether one passage from the Iliad that says "Night that can overpower all gods and mortal men" holds any water.I've included a couple of time stamps in the description, so if you're not interested in hearing about the creation myth, a topic already covered by this channel, or if you just clicked for the Nyx vs Zeus comparison, you can skip ahead. Let's get into it.Chaos, the great void, was the first deity to come into existence, self created and emerging from literally nothing. Chaos was all the empty space that necessarily had to exist for creation to begin. Subsequently, a series of self-created deities then materialised. These were: Gaia, the earth, Tartarus, the abyssal chasm beneath the earth, a great pit existing as a sort of mirrored reflection of the sky - though the sky was yet to be born - and Eros, the personification of sexual desire, the power that permeated the universe and permitted the phenomenon of procreation, whether from a union between two gods, as would happen later, or from independent procreation, also called parthenogenesis, derived from the Greek word for virgin birth, a mode of reproduction that applied to chaos, who independently produced two primordial deities, Nyx and Erebus, as well as to Gaia, who independently produced various physical aspects of the world, namely: Ourea, mountains, Pontus, the Sea, and Uranus, the sky. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices