Hypnos
Greek · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Son of Night, personification of sleep, twin brother of Death.
Parentage
- parent: Nyx
Domains
- sleep
Powers
- Lulls gods and mortals into gentle sleep
- Can lull even Zeus and Ocean to sleep
- Bears away the dead with his twin Death
Epithets
- Ὕπνος πανδαμάτωρ 'Sleep the all-subduer' — Homeric epithet; lord of all gods and menHomer, Iliad 24.4-5 (primary)
- ἄναξ πάντων lord of all (gods and men)Homer, Iliad 14 (primary)
Relations
- sibling: NemesisFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Nyx) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: ThanatosFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Nyx) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: Moros
- counterpart of: HypnosTradition-specific counterpart; this link does not transfer parentage.Orphic Hymns 84 (Taylor; modern 85) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Hesiod, Theogony 211-212 (primary)