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List of Gods : "God Hypnos" - 7 records

Name ▲▼Origin ▲▼Description ▲▼
God name
"Hypnos"
Greek The personification and god of sleep, the Greek Hypnos, is described by the ancients as a brother of death and as a son of night. At Sicyon there was a statue of Sleep surnamed the giver. In works of art Sleep and death are represented alike as two youths sleeping or holding inverted torches in their hands. Greek
God name
"Morpheus"
Greek Minor god of dreams. The son of HYPNOS, there is no record of worship of this deity....
Goddess name
"Nyx"
Greek Primordial goddess. The essence of the night whose sons were the twin brothers HYPNOS, god of sleep, and THANATOS, god of death....
Goddess name
"Pasithea"
Greek / Roman A goddess of relaxation, meditation and hallucinations (the wife of Hypnos, god of sleep)
Goddess name
"Somius"
Roman Minor god of sleep. He equates with the Greek god HYPNOS. According to legend he is one of the two sons of NYX, goddess of night, and lives in a remote cave beside the Lethe river. He is depicted by Ovid dressed in black but with his robe scattered with stars, wearing a crown of poppies and holding a goblet of opium juice. His attendant is MORPHEUS and he oversees the spirits of dreams and nightmares. Particularly noted from the art of the Lacedaemonians who placed statues of Somnus and MORS side by side....
God name
"Somnus"
Greek The personification and god of sleep, the Greek Hypnos, is described by the ancients as a brother of death and as a son of night Roman
Goddess name
"Thanatos"
Greek Minor god of death. According to legend, he is one of the two sons of NYX, the goddess of night, and lives in a remote cave beside the river Lethe which he shares with his twin brother HYPNOS, god of sleep....