For the Greeks, Night (Nyx) was the daughterof Chaos and the mother of Sky (Ouranos) and Earth(Gaial) [...]She atso engendered steep and death, dreamsand anguish, tenderness and deceit.Novatis, in his 'Hymn to the Night', cerebrates Night,symboUsed by steep and dream, asa triumph overtime:
'Aside I turn to the holy, unspeakable,mysterious Night...More heaventy than those glittering stars we hotdthe eternal. Eyes, which the Night hath openedwithin us. Farther they see than the pal.est of thosecountless hosts...Needing no aid from the light, they penetrate thedepths of a loving soul,.., that fills a loftier regionwith btiss ineffabte.'