But Zeus woke up in anger and sought Hypnos everywhere, and the god would have hurled him from heaven into the deep, had Nyx not saved him. This he did in spite of his fears for once before he performed a similar task, also at Hera's request. Hera promised Hypnos to give him Pasithea 2 (one of the CHARITES) as a bride if he would help her to let Zeus fall asleep.
Phobetor is the one who represents the forms of beasts, or birds, or serpents, in men's dreams and Phantasus is in charge of putting deceptive shapes of earth, rocks, water, trees, or other lifeless things in the dreams of men. Morpheus is a cunning imitator of the human form, skilled in representing the features and the speech of men in dreams, as well as the clothing and the accustomed words of each he represents. Hypnos himself lies with heavy eyelids on a high couch of ebony in the cavern's central space, surrounded by empty dream-shapes, which mimick many forms. Before the entrance, where poppies bloom, there are also countless herbs which cause somnolence. In this place, silence and twilight shadows reign, and from the bottom of the cave there flows the stream of Lethe (Oblivion), whose murmuring waves invite to slumber. Hypnos, they say, has his abode within a hollow mountain in Cimmeria, which is to the north of the Black Sea. He can fashion shapes that seem to be true forms, and in his art he receives help from his sons. He had been surnamed "The Bountiful," for this is the god who puts cares to flight, and soothes the bodies of both mortals and immortals. Hypnos, the younger, imitates the other in everything. It has been ordained that Hypnos and Thanatos should have all things in common. He is the younger brother of Thanatos (Death), and Nyx (Night) is the nurse of both. Hypnos, who some say is the god that is dearest to the MUSES, is Sleep and Dream. Copy at Axel Munthe's Villa San Michele, Capri. (Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Part II, Chapter LXVIII).ħ522: Hypnos. There is only one thing, which somebody once put into my head, that I dislike in sleep it is that it resembles death there is very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep." It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man even. Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot.
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Sancho: "… but this I very well know, that while I am asleep, I feel neither hope nor despair I am free from pain and insensible of glory. (Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote de la Mancha, Segunda Parte, Capítulo LXVIII). Sola una cosa tiene mala el sueño según he oído decir, y es que se parece a la muerte, pues de un dormido a un muerto hay muy poca diferencia." Sancho: "…sólo entiendo que en tanto que duermo, ni tengo temor, ni esperanza, ni trabajo, ni gloria y bien haya el que inventó el sueño, capa que cubre todos los humanos pensamientos, manjar que quita la hambre, agua que ahuyenta la sed, fuego que calienta el frío, frío que templa el ardor, y, finalmente, moneda general con que todas las cosas se compran, balanza y peso que iguala al pastor con el rey y al simple con el discreto. On my grave, as now my bed." (Sir Thomas Browne 1605-82, Religio Medici II.12). "O Sleep, rest of all things, mildest of the gods, balm of the soul …" ( Iris 1 to Hypnos. "Divine Sleep, god who knows no pain, Sleep, stranger to anguish, come in favor to us, come happy, and giving happiness, great King! … come with power to heal!" (Sailors of Neoptolemus' crew. "What presumption of man, can match your power, Zeus, who are no subject to Sleep or Time or Age, living forever in bright Olympus?" (Theban Elders. "… almighty Sleep releases the fettered sleeper, and does not hold him in a perpetual grasp." ( Ajax 1.
"… whenever in his imagination a man sees delights, straightaway the vision, slipping through his arms, is gone, winging its flight along the paths of Sleep." (Argive Elders.
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