Juno Covella - Goddesses of Dusk

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Juno Covella

Perpetual Calendar

of the Fellowship of Isis

compiled by

Lawrence Durdin-Robertson, M.A. (Dublin)

Baron Robertson of Strathloch

Priest of Isis

"The Goddess Guides" by Olivia Robertson.

Excerpt from Section VII

Goddesses of the Hours of the Day

EVENING, TWILIGHT or DUSK

See note under Dawn.

Egyptian: NEPHTHYS. (Budge, on Book of the Dead, p. xcvi) “Isis, a spirit of Dawn, and Nephthys, a spirit of twilight”. See also under Dawn.

Indian: SAMDHYA, SANDHYA, Twilight. (Macdonnell, Dict.) “samdhyâ, fem., juncture of day and night, morning or evening twlight … morning (and evening) twlight of a Yuga or cosmic age … Twilight (esp. evening) personified”. (id.) “samdhyâ-upasthâna, worship of twilight”.

(Muller, The Vedas, p. 45) “Sandhyavandana was originally the twilight worship, the morning and evening prayer, to which a third was added (the Madhyahnika) the noon prayer, when the sun culminated. These prayers were once incumbent on every Brahman, though they have now assumed a very perfunctory form …”

USHAS. Ushas, according to Madconnell may, rarely, be the “evening-red”. See under Dawn.

Persian: See under 6 to 7 p.m.

Slavonic: ZORYA VECHERNYAYA and VECHERNYAYA DENNITSA. (Alexinsky, New Larousse, p. 285) “Aurora of the Evening (Zorya Vechernyaya-vecher meaning ‘evening’) closed [the gates] again when the Sun came home.” See also under Dawn: Zorya.

Finnish-Estonian: AMMARIK, The Gloaming. (Legend of Lapland, Anna C. Brackett, cited by Max Muller, Intro. To Science of Rel. p. 389). Note: according to Muller, “Esthonia is really the country that may claim the original story … According to a letter just received from an Esthonian lady, Ammarik does mean the gloaming in the language of the common people of Esthonia”.

“… And every evening Ammarik’s fair hand

Must quench the waning light;

Then over all the weary, waiting land

Fell the still night”.