Saturday, December 26, 2020

Night gave birth to hateful Doom


La Nuit by Auguste Raynaud

In general the association between sleep, death, dreams, and night was tight. Homer's Hermes escorts the souls of the dead suitors to the underworld by taking them past the "people of Dreams," and he guides them there with the golden rod with which he also lulls the living to sleep or wakes them. Hesiod tells that "Night gave birth to hateful Doom and black Fate and Death, and she gave birth to Sleep and to the tribe of Dreams." She lives in dark Hades with Sleep and Death, holding the former in her arms.

Greek and Roman Necromancy, Daniel Ogden 

The Souls Of Acheron by Adolf Hiremy


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