This was SUCH a fruitful discussion about the Orphic understanding of Nyx, or Night! We looked at the Hymn of Nyx from the persepctives of Pythagorean number mysticism and dreams and Egyptian cosmology and… and…
Suffice it to say, it was JUICY!
There are resources for further reading in the section below the summary.
For my original translation of the Hymn of Nyx, you can head here:
Or catch a short audio snippet on Nyx and Darkness here:
SUMMARY of Livechat with timestamps
(I’m experimenting with using AI to capture the discussion. LMK if you have any feedback on that — bad or good)
(00:00:11) • The discussion opens with a note about Mercury being in retrograde (December 14, 2024)
(00:02:41) • Initial discussion about translation choices:
Specific focus on the word choice between "males" vs "humanity" in the translation (00:02:54)
