Rahu is associated with the demon Svarbhaanu which swallows the sun, resulting in eclipses. In the Hindu tradition, Ratri is the goddess of the night while Rahu is the celestial deity of darkness and eclipses. In art, he appears as a serpent with no body riding a chariot drawn by eight black horses. They were called forth from the underworld to inflict suffering and madness upon the evil-doer, to bring drought and famine to … ERINYES The three goddesses of vengeance and retribution. Aletheia (The End of the Darkness) is a God-like entity symbolizing or incarnating the Truth. His mists encircled the underworld and filled the hollows of the earth. Named after the Greek Goddess of Truth, it manifests as vast spiral of manifold titanic hands with a single cycloptic eye in each palm as in the Hamsa and kilometric wire-like protrusions able to ensnare living beings replacing their spinal bone in puppet-like fashion. Like the other protogenoi he was elemental, being the substance of darkness, rather than a man-shaped god. EREBUS (Erebos) The primeval god of darkness. Gods of Darkness [ Back] Ahriman Zoroastrian lord of darkness and death, the supreme evil spirit.