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The Sister Nobody Sang To: The Rigveda's One Hymn to Night (RV 10.127)
The Rigveda gives Dawn some twenty hymns and her sister Night exactly one. This is a close reading of that lone hymn to Rātrī, why the poets sang so little to the dark, and how a minor Vedic goddess grew into the cosmic Night of later Hinduism.