Who is the goddess of nightmares?

Melinoë (/mɪˈlɪnoʊiː/; Ancient Greek: Μηλινόη) is a chthonic nymph or goddess invoked in one of the Orphic Hymns and represented as a bringer of nightmares and madness.
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Who is the goddess of ghosts and nightmares?

Melinoe is the Greek goddess of ghosts, nightmares and funerary rites (often confused with Hecate and Angelos). She wanders the earth every night with a train of ghosts who scare anyone in their path.
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Who is the goddess of dreams and nightmares?

In Greek mythology, Epiales (Ancient Greek: Ἠπιάλης) was the spirit (daemon) and personification of nightmares.
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Who is the goddess of evil?

Hecate (Hekate) is a goddess of Greek mythology capable of both good and evil. She was associated with witchcraft, magic, the Moon, doorways, and creatures of the night like hell-hounds and ghosts.
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Is there a god of depression?

In Greek mythology, Oizys (/ˈoʊɪzɪs/; Ancient Greek: Ὀϊζύς, romanized: Oïzýs) is the goddess of misery, anxiety, grief, depression, and misfortune. Her Roman name is Miseria, from which the English word misery is derived.
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Who is the darkest Greek god?

EREBUS (Erebos) The primeval god of darkness. Like the other protogenoi he was elemental, being the substance of darkness, rather than a man-shaped god. His mists encircled the underworld and filled the hollows of the earth.
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Who is the baddest goddess?

So, here are 8 women from across various mythologies who were complete badasses:
  1. Kali - the slayer of evils. ...
  2. Hel - goddess of the dead. ...
  3. Anat - the goddess of sexual love. ...
  4. Amaterasu - the source of light. ...
  5. Ix - Chel - the moon goddess. ...
  6. Louhi - the goddess of death. ...
  7. Mami Wata - the river goddess. ...
  8. Tiamat - the goddess of the ocean.
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Who is goddess Nyx?

Nyx, in Greek mythology, female personification of night but also a great cosmogonical figure, feared even by Zeus, the king of the gods, as related in Homer's Iliad, Book XIV.
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Who was the ugliest god?

Hephaestus. Hephaestus is the son of Zeus and Hera. Sometimes it is said that Hera alone produced him and that he has no father. He is the only god to be physically ugly.
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What is the goddess of death's name?

Hel, in Norse mythology, originally the name of the world of the dead; it later came to mean the goddess of death. Hel was one of the children of the trickster god Loki, and her kingdom was said to lie downward and northward.
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Did Hades cheat on Persephone?

Hades did not make any of his extramarital affairs a secret. Typically, his affairs would not bother Persephone, but when Minthe arrogantly bragged that she was more beautiful than Persephone and that she would win Hades back, Persephone took revenge. Persephone turned Minthe into what we know today as the mint plant.
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Who is the goddess of chaos?

Eris was the Greek goddess of chaos, strife and discord. She was the daughter of Zeus and Hera; according to other myths, she was the daughter of Nyx (dark night) alone. Her opposite was Harmonia.
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Who is the ugliest Greek goddess?

Who is the ugliest goddess?
  • Aphrodite is the Goddess of Love and Beauty and according to Hesiod's THEOGONY , she was born from the foam in the waters of Paphos, on the island of Cyprus. …
  • However, according to Homer, in Iliad, Aphrodite may instead be the daughter of ZEUS and Dione.
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Is there an evil god?

Apophis: Evil God of Chaos in Ancient Egypt

The evil god was not worshipped; he was feared. It is also believed that no matter how many times he was challenged, he could never be entirely vanquished. In Egyptian mythology, Apophis was also the archenemy of the great sun god, Ra.
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Is there a goddess of darkness?

Nox, primordial goddess of night; equivalent to the Greek goddess Nyx. Scotus, primordial god of darkness; equivalent to the Greek god Erebus.
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Who is the goddess of fear?

Phobos was the god of fear in Greek mythology, son of the gods Ares and Aphrodite. He was the brother of Deimos (terror), Harmonia (harmony), Adrestia, Eros (love), Anteros, Himerus, and Pothos.
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Who was prettier than Aphrodite?

Psyche was a young princess from Sicily, famous for her extraordinary beauty. According to legend, she was even more beautiful than Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty.
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Who is the god of shadows?

Erebus was one of the primordial deities in Greek mythology, born out of the primeval void, Chaos. It was the personification of the deep darkness and shadows.
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