THE ONEIROI x 1000, MORPHEUS, IKELOS, PHANTASOS (Ovid Metamorphoses 11.630) EREBOS & NYX (Hyginus Preface, Cicero De Natura Deorum. NYX (no father) (Hesiod Theogony 212, Homer Iliad 14.250, Aeschylus Frag 250, Seneca Hercules Furens1068, Nonnus Dionysiaca 31.103)

His Roman equivalent was Somnus or Sopor.

His attributes included either a horn of sleep-inducing opium, a poppy-stem, a branch dripping water from the river Lethe (Forgetfulness), or an inverted torch. Hypnos was depicted as a young man with wings on his shoulders or brow. Hypnos was often paired with his twin brother Thanatos (Peaceful Death), and the Oneiroi (Dreams) were his brothers or sons. He dwelt in Erebos, the land of eternal darkness beyond the gates of the rising sun, and rose into the sky each night in the train of his mother Nyx (Night). HYPNOS was the god or personified spirit ( daimon) of sleep. Now the laborers are sick and twisted monsters, and your only means to avoid joining them is to be mulched into pulp, lest your corpse be used as yet another drone in an undead 'workforce'.Sleep ( hypnos) Hypnos god of sleep, Apulian red-figure vase C4th B.C., The J. The actual act of convergence, however, is beyond nightmarish: capitalism's destruction, wrought by the ultimate exploitation of its laborers. The idea of convergence brings the squandered laborers peace. The corporations want your blood, the government wants your mind, the religion wants your money, and all three contribute to the spread of the alien menace that wants your flesh and bone. It's so sick, twisted, and cruel that I can't help but love it. Then, his warning of the aliens was turned into a religious prophecy, for which he became a martyr. And it's all a cruel lie based off of a warning made by a man who discovered the truth, tried to spread the word, and was killed for his trouble. A future where human labor is so devalued, that the most popular religion is based around the idea that while the individual has no value, collectively they are strong. Dead Space is simultaneously one of the subtlest and most overt critiques of capitalism I've seen in a video game.

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