Nyctimus
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- Nyctimus is also a spider genus (Thomisidae)
In Greek mythology, Nyctimus was the son of Lycaon who was killed and served up as part of a feast to Zeus.[1]
Some scholars identify Lycaon with Zeus Lycaeus, Zeus in his role as god of light,[citation needed] who slays Nyctimus (the dark), or is succeeded by him, in allusion to the perpetual succession of night and day.
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- ^ Shuckford, S; The sacred and profane history of the world connected: from the creation of the world to the dissolution of the Assyrian empire at the death of Sardanapalus, and to the declension of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel under the reigns of Ahaz and Pekah: including the dissertation on the creation and fall of man, Volume 3, Baynes 1808 p126
