![]() ![]() Some other accounts say that Nyx hid Hypnos to protect him from the wrath of Zeus. Zeus was conscious of the power of the night and decided not to confront her. Infuriated with Hypnos, Zeus looked for him in his cave to make him pay for his part in Hera’s scheme, but Nyx defended her son. However, Zeus’ sleep was not as deep as expected, and the god awoke while she was still acting against his son. Once Hypnos had Zeus fall into sleep, Hera was able to attack.Īccording to Homer, Heracles was sailing home from Ilion after sacking Troy when Hera unleashed the strongest winds towards the oceans he was crossing. She requested Hypnos to put Zeus to sleep so that she could act against Heracles, without Zeus’ intervention. Hera hated Heracles, an illegitimate son of Zeus, and wanted to have him killed, especially after his role in sacking the city of Troy. On both occasions, he did this as a request from Hera. One of the most famous stories connected to Hypnos relates to his ability to put even the great god Zeus to sleep, not once but twice. ![]() The other two, Icelus and Phantasus, created dreams about animals and inanimate things. Their three sons, named Morpheus, Icelus, and Phantaus were the Oneiroi, who were the dreams in Greek mythology.Īccording to some myths, Morpheus, who created dreams about men, was the chief of the three. He was normally seen with a horn, the stem of a poppy, or with water from the Lethe to induce sleep. In terms of appearance, Hypnos is depicted as a young man with wings on his shoulders or his head. According toOvid’s Metamorphoses, he lives in a cave in the land of the Cimmerian and that the Lethe, the river of forgetfulness and oblivion, crosses to the cave. However, in the Iliad, Homer places his dwelling in the island of Lemnos. The cave was out of reach of sunlight and had poppies, flowers which are known to induce sleep, at the entrance. In some accounts, he is said to have no father some others state that he was the son of Nyx and Erebus.Īccording to some sources Hypnos lived in a dark cave in the underworld with Thanatos. Hypnos is said to be the son of Nyx, goddess of night, and the twin brother of Thanatos, the god of death. As the god of sleep, he had the power to induce sleep on all creatures. In Greek mythology, Hypnos was a primordial deity, the first celestial beings who lived on the earth. Here’s a closer look at Hypnos, a primordial deity. Although he may not be one of the most important gods in the Greek pantheon, he was powerful enough to put Zeus to sleep. But before they were able to act, their father Hypnos had to do the work, putting people to sleep.Among the great Greek figures, Hypnos (Roman counterpart Somnus), the god of sleep, had power over both men and gods. The latter was believed to be the gate for the false dreams. The cave had two gates – one made of the buckhorn the other of the ivory – so that they could choose what dreams to send. The myth says that Oneiroi lived at the shores of the Ocean in the West, in the cave close to Hades. Oneiroi, The Dream-Bearing Sons Of Hypnos Their sons – Oneiroi (meaning “dreams” in Greek) were: Morpheus, Ikelos, Phobetor, and Phantasos. There were rumors (well, they exist even in mythology!) that Hypnos and Pasithea had even a thousand children, but the most common belief is that they had four sons. Their marriage was a direct result of Hypnos’s blackmail to Hera – in order to do her a very tricky favor regarding the Trojan War, Hypnos asked for Pasithea and Hera had no choice so she offered her to Hypnos. Hypnos was married to the youngest of the Graces – Pasithea (or Pasithee), a deity of hallucination or relaxation, depending on the interpretation. One version suggests that Hypnos lived in the cave under one Greek island, Lemnos, and that through his cave the river of forgetfulness, Lethe, used to flow. ![]() Hypnos lived in the dark cave, in the Hades (Underworld), whose entrance was full of poppies and other hypnotic plants. In Hesiod’s version though, Hypnos had no father. Hypnos was the son of goddess Nyx (meaning “night”) and Erebus (deep darkness, or shadow). Ikelos: He was the one creating the true dreams, making them more realistic. Phantasus: He was the one creating the fake and illusional dreams, and had no animus form. He was the personification of nightmare, taking the form of huge and scary animals. Phobetor: He was the one who created the scary dreams. Morpheus: The Winged God of Dreams, able to take any human form in dreams. Wife: Pasithea, the deity of hallucinations ![]()
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