![]() Maybe this demigod could ask Hypnos for just five more minutes before he has to wake up. Nightmares that will no doubt only get worse with time. What we will tell you is that a certain gloomy demigod at Camp Half-Blood has been experiencing recurring nightmares. Even we’re too frightened of Epiales to show you what they really look like. As for why they’ve teamed up? Well, you’ll have to read The Sun and the Star to find out. Hypnos may be the one to put you to sleep, but it’s the mysterious, self-proclaimed “demon of nightmares” known as Epiales who will give you the nasty dreams. If only he weren’t surrounded by such bad influences. Deep down, we’re sure he just wants to chill and have a good time. Most of the other protogenoi will tell you that they’re beyond traditional classifications of good and evil. Putting aside some questionable behavior in his past (name a god who hasn’t broken bad at least once), and that one time when his family tried to destroy Percy and Annabeth (if you can’t handle the heat, don’t enter Tartarus), Hypnos is the only child of Nyx we wouldn’t mind hanging out with. But how else would you expect the god of sleep to act? We just see him as an expert in his craft. Maybe it’s because of his powers, or maybe it’s only because we’re comparing him to his siblings, but Hypnos is a pretty laid-back guy. Oops! Hope he isn’t reading this right now. The second time? Well, Zeus never discovered that it was Hypnos who put him to sleep. And after Zeus woke up in a rage the first time, Hypnos did run to his mommy for protection, so maybe he’s not as tough as we’d like to give him credit for. Which is still massively impressive when you consider how much the King of Olympus enjoys his espresso. In reality, Hypnos simply put Zeus to sleep twice. Okay, maybe “defeated in battle” is a little too generous. He is one of the only gods we can think of who has defeated Zeus in battle-and not just once, but twice! ![]() So, his whole deal is that he puts people to sleep? He has the same power as a podcast about soil conservation! You’d be wise not to underestimate Hypnos, though. We’re just giving them a little rest, that’s all. If we can keep our eyes open long enough, that is. But with Nico and Will traveling down to Hypnos’s hometown of Tartarus next month, we can’t think of a better time for readers to meet the god of ZZZs. And yet, Hypnos must have been sleeping during the events of the Percy Jackson, Heroes of Olympus, and Trials of Apollo series, because we haven’t seen much of him. We’ve met members of Hypnos’s family before: his terrifying mother, Nyx his traitor child Morpheus his demigod son Clovis and more than enough of his awful siblings, such as Thanatos, Eris, and Nemesis. In that case, you may have been visited by Hypnos, the rarely seen Greek god of sleep. We’re talking about the wow, my dreams are so amazing, I would be happy to live in my subconscious until the end of time feeling. I scanned Hypnos in the British Museum using Autodesk 123D Catch, printed it in PLA on a MakerBot Replicator, and coated it in bronze with a blue-green patina in an attempt to make it appear as old and hypnotic as the original.Ever have one of those days (or weeks or months) when you find it absolutely impossible to get out of bed in the morning? We’re not talking about the I really, really don’t want to get up and go to work/school today feeling that each one of us experiences every single Monday. The whereabouts of Lawrence’s Hypnos are unrecorded, but a friend of mine has good reason to believe he owns it (but that’s another story), so I’m in a bit of a friendly competition to get one of my own-and now I have it. He wrote to a friend: “nothing, not even the dawn-can disturb me in my curtains: only the slow crumblings of the coals in the fire: they get so red & throw such splendid glimmerings on the Hypnos.” He also wrote “I would rather possess a fine piece of sculpture than anything in the world.” Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”) passed through Naples and wrote a friend “The bronzes in the Naples museum are beyond words.” Lawrence visited a Neapolitan bronze foundry and bought a cheap, flawed freehand copy of the bronze Hypnos head now in the British Museum. In 1909, when he was on his way back from a tour of Syria, T. The whole package makes for a remarkable artifact of otherworldliness which has spoken to people across time. The subject: the god of sleep, father to Morpheus, god of dreams-the design: the piece’s odd asymmetry, the single wing, and the missing wing, the ambiguous gender. But if there are sculptures that resonate with and might be able to communicate some of that weirdness, the ancient bronze Head of Hypnos in the British Museum is one of them. Like a dream, it needs to be experienced to be appreciated. ![]() There’s something surreal about the whole scan/edit/print process that’s hard to describe. ![]()
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