![]() ![]() Years before the Trojan War began, he took his men on an expedition to Troy. His mother was Zeus human mistress, Alcmene, and Heracles soon grew big and strong. Herakles was conceived during one of her husband’s many adventures. Hera did not care for Zeus son, Herakles, from birth. Two of the most famous tales are based on the text of Homer’s Iliad and reveal how Hypnos overcame and dominated Zeus, the king of the gods, under the direction of the goddess Hera, Zeus wife. There are numerous myths related to the god of sleep. The clan of Hypnos were the gods and goddesses of Greek mythology who controlled dreams and sleep, as well as death and fear. It seems that this family, including the brother, Thanatos, actually possessed the most dangerous and most desired abilities in Greek mythology. But before they could act, their father, had to do the work, put people to bed. The latter was believed to be the door of false dreams. The cave had two doors, one made of rooster horn the other of ivory, so that they could choose which dreams to send. The myth says that Oneiroi lived on the shore of the ocean in the west, in the cave near Hades. Their sons, Oneiroi (which means “dreams” in Greek) were: Morpheus, Ikelos, Phobetor and Phantasos. Their marriage was the direct result of Hypnos blackmailing Hera to do him a very difficult favor regarding the Trojan War, he asked Pasithea who had no other choice, so he offered her to Hypnos.Īccording to some rumors (which exist in mythology) that Hypnos and Pasithea had up to a thousand children, but the most common belief is that they had four children. ![]() He was married to the youngest of the Charites: Pasithea (or Pasithee), a deity of hallucination or relaxation, according to interpretation. Ikelos: He was the one who created the true dreams, making them more realistic.Phantasus: He was the one who created false and illusory dreams, and had no animus form.He was thepersonification of nightmare, taking the form of huge and terrifying animals Phobetor: He was the one who created the dreams of fear.Morpheus: The winged god of dreams, capable of taking any human form in dreams.Wife: The deity of hallucinations, Pasithea.One version suggests that the god of sleep lived in the cave under a Greek island, Lemnos, and that through his cave the river of forgetfulness, Lethe, used to flow. He lived in the dark cave, in Hades (underworld), whose entrance was filled with poppies and other hypnotic plants. However, in Hesiod’s version, he had no father. The god Hypnos was the son of the goddess Nyx (meaning “night”) and Erebus (deep darkness, or shadow). Hypnos was also the father of another powerful deity: Morpheus, the deity of dreams. In Hesiod’s portrayal, Hypnos and his brother Thanatos, the god of death, were terrible gods and quite inseparable in their actions.Īlthough the dream is intangible, Hypnos himself could have been both, but in any case he had enormous power over mortals and immortals, including the god of gods, Zeus. In many artistic works inspired by Greek mythology, he was depicted as a gentle youth, usually with wings attached to his temples or shoulders. His attributes included a sleep-inducing opium horn, a poppy stalk, 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 forehead. The river Lethe (the river of forgetfulness) flowed through the cave. He lived in a cave with his twin brother, Thanatos, in the underworld, where the sun and moon shed no light the earth in front of the cave was filled with poppies and other sleep-inducing plants. He was a primordial deity in Greek mythology, the personification of sleep. Know more: Discover all the Gods of Olympus and their legends. ![]()
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