Aidonian's blog

This Tuesday morning I prayed to Zeus and Plouton to honour them and tonight originally I was going to a training but after hearing the bad news from my mother her condition is getting worse. Her blood results were bad that the doctor is going to come back next week Monday to discuss the next steps.

So I turned towards the Gods for support and comfort and found it after praying to Nyx and staring with this hymn

“Nyx, parent goddess, source of sweet repose, from whom at first both Gods and men arose,
Hear, blessed Kypris, decked with starry light, in sleep’s deep silence dwelling in ebon night!
Dreams and soft case attend your dusky train, pleased with the lengthened gloom and fearful strain.
Dissolving anxious care, the friend of Mirth, with darkling coursers riding round the earth.
Goddess of phantoms and of shadowy play, whose drowsy power divides the natural day:
By Fate’s decree you constantly send the light to deepest hell, remote from mortal sight
For dire Necessity which nothing withstands, invests the world with adamantine bands.
Be present, Goddess, to your suppliant’s prayer, desir’d by all, whom all alike revere,
Blessed, benevolent, with friendly aid dispell the fears of Twilight’s dreadful shade.”

Afterwards I meditated a bit as I always do after a prayer. One of the reasons why I love jogging in the morning is to see the world wake up and the light drive away the darkness. It’s a beautiful thing to see. I asked Nyx to watch over my mother to help her face the fears of meeting her son Thanatos. Than I prayed to Hekate to honour Her and to thank Her for everything She had done for me.

Concerning my mother’s illness. We knew back in February that she didn’t have long. And I’m thankful for the Gods that while