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Idea & background  Hypnos' Myth  Hypnos and Thanatos, Sleep and
His Half-Brother Death by John William Waterhouse Endymion and
Selene, by Sebastiano Ricci (1713), Chiswick House, England.  In
Greek mythology, Hypnos, the twin of Thanatos and the son of
goddess Nyx ("night"), was the personification of sleep. His
palace was a dark cave where the sun never shines. At the
entrance were a number of poppies and other hypnogogic plants.
In art, Hypnos was portrayed as a youthful man, with poppy buds
in the left hand and a cattle horn containing hypnotic liquid in
the other hand. No one could resist to fall asleep when Hypnos
did magic on their eyes. Once the hypnotic curse was marked on
someone, it could not be erased unless Hypnos had mercy on them
and took it off.  One of the most familiar folk tales about
Hypnos is his mercy o