Editing Nyx (section)

==== Later sources ====
The fifth of the ''[[Orphic Hymns]]'' (2nd century AD?) is dedicated to Night, and describes her as the "mother of gods and men", who "gave birth to all";<ref>''[[Orphic Hymn]] to Night'' (3), [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780891301196/page/6/mode/2up?view=theater 1&ndash;2 (Athanassakis and Wolkow, pp. 6&ndash;7)].</ref> in this role as a progenitor, she is addressed in the ''Hymn'' as [[Cypris]] (an epithet of Aphrodite).<ref>Ramnoux, p. 250; ''[[Orphic Hymn]] to Night'' (3), [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780891301196/page/6/mode/2up?view=theater 2 (Athanassakis and Wolkow, pp. 6&ndash;7)].</ref> In the proem to the ''Hymns'', in which [[Orpheus]] addresses [[Musaeus of Athens|Musaeus]], she is similarly called the "oldest of all".<ref>''Orpheus to Musaeus'' (''[[Orphic Hymns]]''), [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780891301196/page/4/mode/2up?view=theater 24 (Athanassakis and Wolkow, p. 4)].</ref> The later ''[[Orphic Argonautica]]'' (4th or 5th centuries AD)<ref>Meisner, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wgJfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA172 p. 172].</ref> also mentions "holy oracles of Night about the lord Bacchus", seemingly referring to the Rhapsodies.<ref>West, pp. 99&ndash;100; ''[[Orphic Argonautica]]'', 28 (Vian, p. 76) [= Orphic fr. 238 Bernabé (I p. 200) = [https://archive.org/details/orphicorumfragme00orphuoft/page/64/mode/2up?view=theater fr. 224T Kern]].</ref>