These are Hypnos and Thanatos, dread divinities. “ carries Hypnos (Sleep) in her arms, and he is Thanatos' (Death's) brother … And there the children of gloomy Nyx have their houses. With favouring aspect to my prayer incline, and save thy mystics in their works divine.” – Orphic Hymn 85 to Hypnos Thy pleasing gentle chains preserve the soul, and even the dreadful cares of death control for Thanatos (Death), and Lethe (Forgetfulness) with oblivious stream, mankind thy genuine brothers justly deem. Tamer of cares, to weary toil repose, and from whom sacred solace in affliction flows. ‘Tis thine all bodies with benignant mind in other bands than those of brass to bind. Hypnos, king of Gods, and men of mortal birth, sovereign of all, sustained by mother earth for thy dominion is supreme alone, over all extended, and by all things known. “To Hypnos (Sleep), Fumigation from Poppies. Nor bearded ears in fields, nor sands upon the shore. Stuff'd with black plumes, and on an ebon-sted:īlack was the cov'ring too, where lay the God,Īnd slept supine, his limbs display'd abroad:Īnd mock their forms the leaves on trees not more, On creaking hinges turn'd, to break his sleep.īut in the gloomy court was rais'd a bed, No door there was th' unguarded house to keep, Night from the plants their sleepy virtue drains,Īnd passing, sheds it on the silent plains: The palace moats, and o'er the pebbles creeps,Īnd with soft murmurs calls the coming sleeps.Īnd all cool simples that sweet rest bestow Nor trees with tempests rock'd, nor human cry ĭwells here, and a dumb quiet next to death. Nor beast of Nature, nor the tame are nigh, Nor watchful dogs, nor the more wakeful geese,ĭisturb with nightly noise the sacred peace No crowing cock does there his wings display, Nor setting, visits, nor the lightsome noon His brother is Thanatos, God of Peaceful Death. Through the Gates of Horn come prophetic dreams, and through the Gates of Ivory come deceptive dreams which mislead. Hypnos opens two gates, the Gates of Horn and Ivory, through which Oniros comes into the minds of men. Hypnos delivers mortals from pain and mental suffering, with the help of his sons and his brother Oniros (Dream) he colours their sleep with dreams. Morpheus appears in human form in our dreams, Phobetor as birds and animals, and Phantasus as all the animate objects of our dreams. Together they have three children, Morpheus, Phobetor, and Phantasus who occupy the dreams of men. He is most beloved of the Muses, and his spouse is Pasithea, one of the Charities. He carries a drinking horn, from which he pours sleep-inducing opium. Hypnos is a gentle and benevolent god who sometimes takes the form of a singing bird, sometimes that of a winged youth or old man. The cave is surrounded by opium poppies and other sleep-inducing herbs. Hypnos dwells with his twin brother Thanatos, god of Death, in a dark cave by the banks of the river Lethe (Oblivion), at the entrance to Hades. His father is Erebus, the pure darkness of Hades, the Underworld. However, Hypnos manages to get past his obstacle, only to be driven insane by what he experienced afterward, and by the sound of a flute.Hypnos the Bountiful, as he was known by the ancients, rests in the arms of his mother Nyx (Night). His friend gives up and awakens from his sleep and waits for Hypnos to wake up as well. The Lord of Dreams soon becomes confident that he can become the King of all reality, and ascends even further with his friend, eventually reaching a massive clump which they seemingly cannot pass through, unlike all the other previous levels of existence. Transcending limitless realms of existence countless times, going further and deeper each time they transcend the previous plateau of existence. This happens over a period of time where the two travel further beyond. Hypnos begins to enlighten his new friend on the nature of reality and shows him realms which exist beyond all concepts of space, time and dimensions. Hypnos is the Greek/Roman God of Dreams and appears in Lovecraft's short story " Hypnos", where he met a nameless man who would soon be his friend by chance. He appears as a youthful man with a bearded face, "immense, sunken and widely luminous eyes", and a crown of poppies. It is speculated that he is an Elder God, ( EXP: Malleus Monstrorum) as he appears in the story " Hypnos". Hypnos is the Greek god of sleep incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Young with the youth that is outside time, and with beauteous bearded face, curved, smiling lips, Olympian brow, and dense locks waving and poppy-crowned.
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