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So she had Hypnos put Zeus to sleep, and set blasts of angry winds upon the sea while Heracles was still sailing home. She was furious that Heracles, Zeus' son, sacked the city of the Trojans. It was Hera who had asked him to trick Zeus the first time as well.
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Hypnos was reluctant because the last time he had put the god to sleep, he was furious when he awoke. Hera called on Hypnos and asked him to help her by putting Zeus to sleep. Hera was almost ready to trick Zeus, but she needed the help of Hypnos, who had tricked Zeus once before. She told Aphrodite that she wanted the charm to help herself and Zeus stop fighting. In order to procure the charm, however, she lied to Aphrodite because they sided on opposites sides of the war. She then called for Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and asked her for a charm that would ensure that her trick would not fail. She wove flowers through her hair, put on three brilliant pendants for earrings, and donned a wondrous robe. So she went and washed herself with ambrosia and anointed herself with oil, made especially for her to make herself impossible to resist for Zeus. She decided that in order to trick him she needed to make him so enamoured with her that he would fall for the trick. During the war, Hera loathed her brother and husband, Zeus, so she devised a plot to trick him. Hypnos was able to trick him and help the Danaans win the Trojan war. However, before they could do their work and send out the dreams, first Hypnos had to put the recipient to sleep. The cave had two gates with which to send people dreams one made from ivory and the other from buckhorn. The Oneiroi lived in a cave at the shores of the Ocean in the West. Morpheus, Phobetor, and Phantasos appeared in the dreams of kings.
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Phantasos was known for creating fake dreams full of illusions. Phobetor is the personification of nightmares and created frightening dreams, he could take the shape of any animal including bears and tigers. Hypnos' three sons were known as the Oneiroi, which is Greek for "dreams." Morpheus is the Winged God of Dreams and can take human form in dreams. Pasithea is the deity of hallucination or relaxation. His wife, Pasithea, was one of the youngest of the Graces and was promised to him by Hera, who is the goddess of marriage and birth. Nyx was a dreadful and powerful goddess, and even Zeus feared entering her realm. Hypnos' mother was Nyx (Νύξ, "Night"), the deity of Night, and his father was Erebus, the deity of Darkness. The underworld is translated into English as Hell in the Septuagint Bible. Hypnos lived next to his twin brother, Thanatos (Θάνατος, "death personified") in the underworld. This river is known as the river of forgetfulness.
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The river Lethe, in the underworld, flowed through his cave. His dwelling had no door or gate so that he might not be awakened by the creaking of hinges. According to Greek mythology Hypnos lived in a cave, whose mansion does not see the rising, nor the setting sun, nor does it see the "lightsome noon." At the entrance were a number of poppies and other hypnotic plants.