Hypnos: God Of Sleep Who Owns Much Of Our Lives In Greek Mythology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - In "Theogony," a Greek poet, Hesiod, who likely lived around 700 BC, tells about Hypnos, the god of sleep, and his twin brother, Thanatos, the god of death, who the Greeks occasionally saw as a harbinger of a peaceful death. Their parents were Nyx, the goddess of the night, and Erebus, the god of darkness.
The two divine brothers work in close cooperation and together help humans avoid unnecessary suffering and die peacefully in their sleep. Hypnos masters people's dreams and owns half of their lives, watching over men's dreams and, above all, the gods' dreaming.
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