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Gods/Goddesses/Demigods * Hermes - Considered a god of dreams and sleep. (also many other things) (see wealth) (DM.124.125) * Hypnos - (Greek) god of sleep. Son of Nyx (night) and brother of Thanatos (death). Father of Morpheus, Icelus and Phntasus (various bringers of dreams) seen as a winged youth. uses a branch to touch the heads of the sleepy, or pours soporafic liquid over them with a horn. (DM.134) * Morpheus (Greek) son of Hypnos (DM.177) * Somnus (Roman) god of sleep. son of night and brother of death. (DM.241) Plants and Minerals * Amethyst - symbol of temperance, peace, humility and piety. Greeks believed it promoted sobriety. ("amethustos" = not intoxicated) Also promotes wholesome dreams. (DSYMB.12) * Mugwort - said to bring divinational dreams if stuffed into a pillow. It is also said that drinking the tea could bring clairvoyant trances. (WDS.448) * Poppy - (makes opium, morphine, heroin) is asociated with sleep, inertia, numbness, death. Demeter with poppies is a representation of a death goddess. Also, poppies associated with fertility (many seeds) and the poppy leaves have been used for divination. (WDS.433) Sleep/Dreams POPCULTURE! * COMIC/Book - Neil Gaiman's representation of Morpheus as the King of Dreams. |