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Hypn Hypnos Hypnus Hypnosis Hypnotic Hypochondriac
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ HYPN~     root tha may imply "DOWN" as in
            id+ | SLEEP SLIP SLUMBER |
~ HYPNOS    or                       sug> HYPNOTIC
~ HYPNUS    or HYPNUS or in Rome     sug> LETHARGY
            HYPNUS                   sug> SIESTA
     myth> GOD OF SLEEP and          sug> SOMNOLENT
           FATHER OF MORPHEUS        sug> MORPHINE
     TWIN BROTHER OF THANATOS        see> LETHAL
     HYPNUS can be seen as the       sug> DORMANT
     inducer of TEMPORARY SLEEP      sug> SLUMP
     in contrast THANATOS induces    sug> FATAL
            FATAL or                 sug> FALL
            PERMANENT SLEEP          sug> SLUMP
~ HYPNOSIS  main entry is see> SLEEP
            implies AN ARTIFICIAL INDUCTION OF AN ALTERED
                    CONSCIOUSNESS OFTEN FOR THE PURPOSE
            TO INTRODUCE SUGGESTIONS or COMMANDS or
            SUPPRESS JUDGMENT or to ELUCIDATE INHIBITIONS
~ HYPNOTIC  med> AN AGENT THAT INDUCES SLEEP or
                 UNCONSCIOUSNESS or ALTERED MEMORY
     ply> | HYPNOS and SOMNUS as SOMNOLENT HYPNOTICS may
            be LETHAL or THANATOPHORIC but also may induce
     NAPPING  SNOOZING   DROWSY DOZING or
     STUPOR and STUPIDITY or OBLIVIOUS OBLIVION |
     myth> GOD OF SLEEP AND DREAMS
           FATHER OF MORPHEUS
     SON OF NIX or NIGHT
     TWIN BROTHER OF THANATOS
     THE BROTHERS HYPNOS SOMNUS AND THANATOS
     LIVED AT THE ENTRANCE OF TARTAROS
     THE SLEEP INDUCED BY SOMNUS WAS A REVERSIBLE LETHARGY
     THE SLEEP INDUCED BY THANATOS WAS DEADLY  or LETHAL
     BOTH INDUCED OBLIVIOUSNESS
     ply> | ENTERING THE UNDERWORLD IS TO ACCEPT FROM
          SOMNUS SLEEP AND FROM THANATOS ITS ETERNITY
          AND WITH IT OBLIVION |
     note how WITH THE HELP OF HYPNOS HERA EXHAUSTED ZEUS BY
          " LYING WITH HIM "  AND WHILE ZEUS SLEPT
     HYPNOS MANAGED TO FULFILL THE COMMAND OF APOLLO
     TO CARRY THE CORPSE OF SARPEDON TO HIS HOME IN LYDIA
     ply> | HYPNOS FOLLOWS EROS AS SLEEP FOLLOWS LOVE |
     note that HYPNOS WAS VIEWED AS BENEFACTOR OF
           THE WEARY TO WHOM HE GAVE REST
     THE SUFFERERS TO WHOM HE GAVE ALLEVIATION OF PAIN
     THE ARTISTS TO WHOM HE GAVE INSPIRATIONS
     HYPNOS WAS A FAVORITE OF THE MUSES
     art> REPRESENTED INCONSISTENTLY EITHER NUDE OR
          HEAVILY CLAD IN HASTE or REPOSING
     AS CHILD or A BEARDED OLD MAN
     THE BRITISH MUSEUM HAS A BRONZE HEAD OF HYPNOS WITH
     WINGS OF A HAWK GROWING FROM HIS TEMPLES
     IT RELATES TO THE STORY IN THE ILIAD ABOUT
     HERA COMMANDING HYPNOS TO INDUCE SLEEP IN ZEUS
     ply> | A HYPNOTIC CAN FAN or GIVE WING
         TO DREAMS IN THE TEMPLES OF THE MIND
     BUT SOME FANATICS USE DREAMS TO CRAFT A CREED
     and may PROFANE TEMPORAL TEMPLES FOR PROFIT |
     see> SLEEP as the main entry for these complex ideas
     also consider DORMANT  CADUCEUS  MORPHEUS
     biol> HYPNOS  HYPNEA  HYPNORNA  HYPNOSPORE
           are some of many names given to
     pl  ins  spores  etc to stress properties of
     HIBERNATION or an ability to PARALYZE A PREY
                 sug> STUPOR  sug> STUPID
~ HYPOCHONDRIAC  id+ | CHRONIC "DOWN" or
                       NEGATIVE FEELINGS as per or
  HYPOCHONDRIUM or areas
  "UNDER" THE RIBS" from
  gr HYPO         = UNDER and
         KHONDROS   CARTILAGE of the RIB
  note A DAMAGE TO A RIB CARTILAGE CAN
       CAUSE CONSIDERABLE CHRONIC PAIN
  id+ | CHRONIC FEELING OF POOR HEALTH |
        INTERPRETED AS IMAGINARY
  hx> THE DEATH OF MOLIERE [#] IS AN IRONY
      symb> WHILE HE WAS PERFORMING HIS PLAY
  " THE IMAGINARY INVALID "     sug> PARADOX
  HE WAS IN FACT DYING
  med> HYPOCHONDRIA IS HARD TO DIAGNOSE or
       AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK
  A TASK AKIN TO TRYING TO PROVE A NEGATIVE or
  TO PROVE THAT A DISEASE IS NOT PRESENT
  IN PSYCHOLOGICAL TERMS A HYPOCHONDRIAC FEELS
  UNWELL INDISPOSED SICKLY  
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