Oizys, whose name means
pain, or
woe, was the
unfathered daughter of
Nyx, winged goddess of the
Night. The twin of
Momus, god of
Mockery, Oiyzs is the female
personification of pain.
"And again the goddess murky Nyx, though she lay with none, bare Momos and painful Oizys." -
Theogony 214-215
Oizys' siblings are:
Cer,
Thanatos,
Hypnos,
Oneiros,
Momus,
Moros,
Nemesis,
Apate,
Philotes,
Geras,
Eris, as well as the three
Fates:
Clotho,
Laechisis,
Atropos.
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