Also this is better quality than what I had up before. With favouring aspect to my prayer incline, and save thy mystics in their works divine."ĮDIT (08 JULY 2015) - Uploaded a much lighter version of Hypnos, more printer-friendly as I did print a few samples and found the older version appeared too dark. 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. Orphic Hymn 85 to Hypnus (Greek hymns C3rd B.C. One of these, across the earth and the wide sea-ridges, goes his way quietly back and forth, and is kind to mortals, but the heart of the other one is iron, and brazen feelings without pity are inside his breast." Never upon them does Helios, the shining sun, cast the light of his eye-beams, neither when he goes up the sky nor comes down from it. These are Hypnos and Thanatos, dread divinities. The god of dreams, Morpheus brought dreams of men, while Icelus and Phantasus brought dreams of animals and inanimate objects, respectively. Some of the leading go were Morpheus, Icelus (Ikelos), and Phantasus (Phantasos). In Greek myth he is variously described as living in the underworld or on the island of Lemnos ( according to Homer) or (according to Book XI of Ovid’s Metamorphoses) in a dark, musty cave in the land of the Cimmerians, through which flowed the waters of Lethe, the river of forgetfulness and oblivion. Hypnos was the son of Nyx (Night) and the twin brother of Thanatos (Death). Hypnos would induce sleep while the Oneiros brought vivid dreams to mortals. Hypnos, Latin Somnus, Greco-Roman god of sleep. According to legend, the Oneiros was the bringer of dreams. They were known as the Oneiroi or Oneiros. And there the children of gloomy Nyx have their houses. In some versions of the myth of Hypnos, the two deities had several sons. " carries Hypnos (Sleep) in her arms, and he is Thanatos' (Death's) brother. Hesiod, Theogony 758 ff (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) : SONG OF MOTIVATION: Theta Brainwave Meditation Music TIME CONSUMED: Oddly enough, this took longer than I expected cause I kept falling asleep. His attributes included either a horn of sleep-inducing opium, a poppy-stem, a branch dripping water from the river Lethe (Forgetfulness), or an inverted torch. He was depicted as a young man with wings on his shoulders or brow. Hypnos was often paired with his twin brother Thanatos (Peaceful Death), and the Oneiroi (Dreams) were his brothers or sons. From there he rose into the sky each night in the train of his mother Nyx (Night). His dwelling had no door or gate so that he might not be awakened by the creaking of hinges. At the entrance were a number of poppies and other Sleep-Inducing plants. ![]() ![]() His palace was a dark cave where the sun never shined. He resided in Erebos, the land of eternal darkness, beyond the gates of the rising sun. HYPNOS was the god or spirit (Daimon) of Sleep.
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