Post by Admin on Dec 27, 2011 0:11:45 GMT -5
NYX
The House of Night series is filled with religion. The House of Night religion is heavily pagan and Wiccan based, with a huge influx of Native American myth and legend. Within vampyre society, the primary Goddess is a benevolent female named Nyx. Vampyres and fledglings cast a magic circle to communicate with Nyx or to harness the power of the elements: air, fire, water, earth, and spirit.
Nyx is the goddess of all vampyres. She is the personification of Night and is known by many names including Daia, the name of the earth mother. In vampyres history, since ancient time Nyx has been worshiped by all vampyres as the goddess of the night and rituals such as the "Full Moon ritual". Vampyres also honor by living matriarchal society, where women rule and men are honored and respected as warriors and companions.
The religious ambiance gives House of Night a strong moral perspective which may apply to the real world as well. Nyx gives vampyres and humans free will. "We all have bad things inside us,"says Zoey(Main Character in HoN series), "and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them. In other words, people who have bad, even monstrous desires are not monsters; people who give in to those urges are."
The majority of humans don't acknowledge Nyx as their Goddness. Some of these people are known for seeing everything outside their religion as evil and devilish.
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