Hoodoo

Midnight: the period between the time for good magic and the time for evil magic. 

The six months of the southern path of the sun, the path of smoke, of night, of the dark fortnight, leads other souls to light of the moon and to rebirth- said by Krishna to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita

After years of waiting [the Sphinx] was before me at last. The great face was so sad, so earnest, so longing, so patient.  There was a dignity not of this earth in its mien, and in its countenance a benignity such as never anything human wore.  It was stone, but it seemed sentient.-Mark Twain