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Night: The song John Lennon wrote for young Julian Lennon, "Good Night" (sung by Ringo Starr) from the White Album, Hard Days Night, The Night Before. Also in relation to Dark Horse, Paul McCartney's No More Lonely Nights, Every Night, Beautiful Night; Wings' When The Night; John Lennon's Whatever Gets You Through the Night, Sleepless Night> (How do you sleep? How?); George Harrison's Last Night, P2 Vatican Blues (Last Saturday Night), (Traveling Wilbury's) Where Were You Last Night , Ringo Starr's Night And Day, Woman Of The Night, Tango All Night, Mystery Of The Night (some authored, some just preformed by Ringo, but he was always more the performer than the writer, no? Ringo's music is all in his song choices).
"The Greeks personified night as a mother Goddess, Nyx, who was the mother of the sky as well as the daughter of Chaos. Nyx governed all things nocturnal: sleep, dreams, death, night-loving animals, and occult matters. She is depicted being drawn across the dark sky by four black horses, and followed by the Fates and the Furies. This may be the Greek representation of night, bits shared by the other cultures, too; the Mayans used the same hieroglyphic symbol to describe the concepts of night, death and darkness. Latterly, the night has become synonymous with matters belonging to the subconscious, and we speak of a difficult time as being a 'dark night of the soul."
"Night is a highly ambivalent symbol, but peace and refuge from care are among its positive emblematic meanings. In art its Greek personification, Nyx, is shown as a winged mother of two children, a white one representing sleep a dark one representing death. Sleep was personified in Greek mythology by a youthful god, Hypnos, who sometimes appears in art wearing a poppy in his hair, symbolizing the narcotic-like tranquility of deep sleep." (1,001S)
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