I wonder if we might think about Night in terms similar to what Kim just articulated. Night says that she is "root of Duessas race," and we are given a sense of her grotesque appearance;
And all the while she stood vpon the ground,
The wakefull dogs did neuer cease to bay,
As giuing warning of th'vnwonted sound,
With which her yron wheeles did them affray,
And her darke griesly looke them much dismay;
The messenger of death, the ghastly Owle
With drearie shriekes did also her bewray;
And hungry Wolues continually did howle,
At her abhorred face, so filthy and so fowle.
Spenser heavily uses the language of kinship to describe the relation between Night, Duessa, and the Sans brothers, but I can't quite get my head around the significance of the connection between kinship and Night's fearsome appearance in this religious allegory.
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