![]() ![]() He mentions three/four by name: Morpheus was identified as the god of dreams, Phobetor as the god of nightmares, Icelos/Ikelos as the god of people in prophetic dreams, and Phantasos as the god of inanimate objects in Prophetic dreams. The Latin poet Ovid presents them not as brothers of Hypnos, but as some of his thousand sons. The term for nightmare is melas oneiros (black dream).Īccording to some the leader of the Oneiroi is Morpheus, a god who appears in the dreams of kings in the guise of a man bearing messages from the gods. The first of these, made of horn, is the source of the prophetic god-sent dreams, while the other, constructed of ivory, is the source of dreams which were false and without meaning. The Oneiroi pass through one of two gates ( pylai). They are the dark-winged spirits ( daimones) of dreams which emerge each night like a flock of bats from their cavernous home in Erebos-the land of eternal darkness beyond the rising sun. oneiros, (Ὄνειροι, "Dreams") were various gods and demigods that ruled over dreams, nightmares, and oneiromantic symbols.Īccording to Hesiod, they were the sons of Nyx (Night) and the brothers of Hypnos (Sleep), Thanatos (Death), Geras (Old Age), and other beings, all produced via parthenogenesis.Ĭicero follows this tradition, but describes the sons of Nyx as fathered by Erebus (Darkness).Īccording to Ovid, they were the sons of Hypnos and his wife Pasithea (therefore making them Nyx's and Erebus' grandsons).Įuripides calls them instead sons of Gaia (Earth) and pictures them as black-winged daemons. In Greek mythology, the Oneiroi or Oneiri, sing.
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