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Hypnos, the god of Sleep. Hypnos is the Greek god of sleep. In many artistic works inspired by the Greek Mythology, Hypnos was represented as a gentle young man, usually with wings attached to his temples or shoulders. In Hesiod’s portray, Hypnos and his brother Thanatos, the god of Death, were both terrible gods and pretty much inseparable ...
His relationships to beginning of the game are anything but good, he doesn't have many friends, according to his mother Nyx even less than his reserved and reticent brother, Thanatos. Hypnos only friends seem in fact to be his twin brother, Zagreus and to a certain extent Megaera, even though he's also expressing a lot of care and love to his mom.
Hypnos is the embodiment of sleep. He is one of Nyx's many children, and the younger twin brother of Thanatos . He watches over the procession of newly-arrived shades coming before Hades, checking their names off his list. He is often seen sleeping on the job. He greets Zagreus most of the time when the prince is killed and returns to the House ...
He has nine brothers, among whom the most important is his twin Tânato, (Θάνατος) the personification of death. So much so that in Sparta, it is common for his image to be placed always next to death, represented by his brother. His other brothers were born only by the will of Nix or the help of Erebo. His Roman equivalent is Somno. Legend
THANATOS was the god or personified spirit ( daimon) of non-violent death. His touch was gentle, likened to that of his twin brother Hypnos (Sleep). Violent death was the domain of Thanatos' blood-craving sisters, the Keres, spirits of slaughter and disease. Thanatos plays a prominent role in two myths. Once when he was sent to fetch Alkestis ...
Sarpedon was escorted on his final journey by a noteworthy pair of “pallbearers”: the divine twins Hypnos and Thanatos, sent on the orders of the king of the gods to transport the hero’s corpse to Lycia. Zeus, who controlled the course of the war, ordered Apollo to clean Sarpedon’s corpse and have the twin brothers quickly transport the ...
May 29, 2018 · Hypnos, the god of peaceful sleep, and Thanatos, the god of peaceful death, were twin brothers. Hypnos was also said to live in the underworld. The ancient Greeks clearly noticed the crude similarities between a sleeping person and a dead person, and viewed sleep itself as a product of the underworld, a sort of shadow of death.
