May 22
Hello, I thought I'd share my little Hypnos altar, so here ya go! My phone's camera isn't great and the lighting's a bit harsh, but eh, is what it is!
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Hello, I thought I'd share my little Hypnos altar, so here ya go! My phone's camera isn't great and the lighting's a bit harsh, but eh, is what it is!
Put Hypnos on the headboard until we could get nightstands not thinking this was gonna be the POV
Go to sleep.
Right now.
I see you doom scrolling.
It’s late, you should be asleep.
BED TIME. NOW.
I didn't sleep much last night, but that's ok because the reason is the cat I've been luring into the house to rescue was sleeping on my shoulder and purring right in my ear.
Kitty saw a gap in the blenkets and slid right in and passed out. Thank you for letting kitty get some real sleep in a bed rather than the streets Hypnos :) Even if it meant me loosing a bit of my own sleep in the process.
Makes oshikatsu photocard holder for an actual ancient god
Things from The Spell of Hypnos (SILVIA MONTIGLIO) I found interesting:
My thoughts are in bold. Bonus Thanatos mentions, because the twins are twining.
(In the section of the Illiad where Hypnos puts Zeus to sleep) Hypnos emphasizes the depth of Zeus’ slumber by calling it κῶμα: a condition in which every mental activity is stopped. In archaic and classical texts κῶμα comes from the gods or godlike forces. Probably the closest thing you could get to death without dying, a particular type of coma like sleep only the gods can enduce.
Hypnos is reluctant to put Zeus to sleep the second time (fair, given what happened the first time). But does so because he is hierarchically subjcted to. Basically Hera said "you have to" and he (in a much more polite way) was like "uughh... fine"
While Death ‘holds fast whichever human he has once seized’, ‘all powerful Hypnos releases those he binds, and does not hold them forever once he has seized them’. Twins mention!!!
In the Homeric imaginary, Hypnos is indeed lord of every living being: sleep, and only sleep, earns the epithet πανδαμάτωρ, ‘subjugating everything’.
The Orphic Hymn to Hypnos (85) agrees with Homer in celebrating the god’s sweeping power – again, his alone: ‘Hypnos, lord of all the blessed and of mortal men and of all the animals that the wide earth breeds, you alone rule over everyone and come to everyone, binding bodies in chains not forged of metal’.
In later art and poetry, sleep’s rule over the gods is brought into bold relief by images of a slumbering Eros (Figure 1.2) in which the god who shares Hypnos’ prerogative of ‘subjugating [. . .] the minds of all gods and men’ (Hes. Theog. 121–2) is overcome by a force stronger than he. Both sleep and love are ‘limb loosening’; but sleep loosens the limbs of Eros. Yet another link between Eros and Hypnos, sleep and love are intertwined.
Sleep and Death are called ‘brothers’ when Hera first approaches Hypnos (Il. 14. 231),58 and ‘twins’ when they are summoned jointly to carry Sarpedon’s dead body home (Il. 16. 672–3 and 682–3). Example of Hypnos working with Thanatos directly with dealing of death. Also emphasis on the fact they are twins, not just brothers.
Achilles has greif enduced insomnia for twelve days after Patrocolus' death. I don't really have the words for it right now, but I feel like theres things to be said about the twins links and greif enduced insomnia. This book also calls Patrochilles "friends"... yeah, ok sure buddy.
When he eventually does fall asleep ‘And sleep caught him, freeing his heart from cares, sweet, poured around him, for he was very tired in his glistening limbs’ (23. 62–3). "Sleep caught him" is intresting wording, it's like Hypnos had to physically chase afrer him and grab him to get him to calm down and rest.
Theres way more to get through, it's a 300+ page book. But that's what I got so far.
Sleeps like a twistie because comfortable.
Wakes up stiff.
Does streches.
Oops, streached *wrong* and now ouchie.
Hypermobile tears.
Hypnos please let me sleep on my back like a normal person.
EXCUSE ME HOW MUCH????
I ain't paying all that does anyone know where I can find this cheaper/a PDF of it or something? Its so hard to find books and papers on Hypnos.