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Vol. II · Polytheism

Hypnos

Greek god of sleep

drifting on a cloud above a sleeping world, sprinkling poppies and dark wings folded around him

Organization: Mixed Bronze-Age pantheons (Vedic + Mesopotamian)
Time period: c. 2000 BCE – 500 BCE
Location: Eurasia (India + Mesopotamia)

Source attribution

This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Vedic/Sumerian/Mesopotamian has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.