This tale is often cited as evidence that Zeus is fearful of Nyx. He disturbed Zeus only a few times after that, always fearing Zeus and running back to his mother, Nyx, who would have confronted Zeus with maternal fury. Hypnos goes on to say that Zeus, fearing Nyx's anger, held his fury at bay and in this way he escaped the wrath of Zeus by appealing to his powerful mother.
Zeus was furious and would have cast Hypnos into the sea if he had not fled to Nyx, his mother, in fear. He had once before put Zeus to sleep at the bidding of Hera, allowing her to cause Heracles (who was returning by sea from Laomedon's Troy) great misfortune. In the Iliad of Homer, Hypnos, the minor deity of sleep, reminds Hera of an old favor after she asks him to put Zeus to sleep. Hesiod says further that Nyx's daughter Hemera (Day) left Tartarus just as Nyx (Night) entered it continuing cyclicly, when Hemera returned, Nyx left. In his description of Tartarus, Hesiod locates there the home of Nyx, and the homes of her children Hypnos and Thanatos. Later, on her own, Nyx gives birth to Moros (Doom, Destiny), the Keres (Destruction, Death), Thanatos (Death), Hypnos (Sleep), the Oneiroi (Dreams), Momus (Blame), Oizys (Pain, Distress), the Hesperides, the Moirai (Fates), Nemesis (Indignation, Retribution), Apate (Deceit), Philotes (Friendship), Geras (Old Age), and Eris (Strife). With Erebus (Darkness), Nyx gives birth to Aether (Brightness) and Hemera (Day). In Hesiod's Theogony, Nyx is born of Chaos. Roman-era bronze statuette of Nyx velificans or Selene ( Getty Villa) Hesiod
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