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Hypnos (Greek deity)

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Personal name headingHypnos (Greek deity)
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Variant(s)Υπνος (Greek deity)
Somnus (Greek deity)
Hypnus (Greek deity)
LocatedHades
Erebus
Hell
Limnos Island (Greece)
Special noteNon-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inWöhrle, Georg. Hypnos, der Allbezwinger, 1995.
Wikipedia, March 1, 2017: Hypnos (In Greek mythology, Hypnos (Greek: Υπνος = Hypnos) is the personification of sleep; the Roman equivalent is known as Somnus; God of Sleep; Hypnos is the son of Nyx and Erebus. His brother is Thanatos, both siblings live in the underworld (Hades) or in Erebus, another valley of the Greek underworld; According to Homer, he lives on the island Lemnos, which later on has been claimed to be his very own dream-island)
Greek mythology website, March 1, 2017 (Hypnos was a primordial deity in Greek mythology, the personification of sleep. He lived in a cave next to his twin brother, Thanatos, in the underworld, where no light was cast by the sun or the moon; Hypnos is also called Somnus, Hypnus)
   <http://www.greekmythology.com/Other_Gods/Hypnos/hypnos.html>
Theoi Project website, March 1, 2017 (Hypnos was the god or personified spirit (daimon) of sleep. He dwelt in Erebos, the land of eternal darkness beyond the gates of the rising sun, and rose into the sky each night in the train of his mother Nyx (Night); Greek name: Υπνος = Hypnos; his Roman equivalent was Somnus or Sopor)
   <http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Hypnos.html>
Britannica online, March 1, 2017 (Hypnos, Latin Somnus, Greco-Roman god of sleep. Hypnos was the son of Nyx (Night) and the twin brother of Thanatos (Death). 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)
   <https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hypnos>
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