Hypnos, Lord of Sleep
"...Young with the youth that is outside time, and with beauteous bearded face, curved, smiling lips, Olympian brow, and dense locks waving and poppy-crowned." ~ H.P. Lovecraft , "Hypnos"He appears as a youthful man with a bearded face, “immense, sunken and widely luminous eyes”, and a crown of poppies. It is rumored that the Lord of Sleep has a bed made of ebony, in the center of a large grotto, on the entrance of the cave grow a number of poppies and other hypnotic plants. No light or sound ever enter his grotto, and according to scholars, he lives on an island in the astral sea
Lemnos/Corona Borealis. The domain of Hypnos is the constellation known as Corona Borealis, an island in the sky where the Lord of Sleep watches and guards the gates of sleep. Guardian of Sleep. Those that attempt to breach the Gates in sleep will eventually find themselves face to face with Hypnos, your gods be with you if you do not heed his warnings.
Divine Domains
Dream, Knowledge, Sleep
Divine Symbols & Sigils
A youthful man with a poppyseed crown
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