![]() ![]() Sometimes Somnus is portrayed as a lying sleeping child like this black Somnus. Against his foot stands an inverted extinguished torch. On the head side a young Macedonian senator with diadem and on the other side a winged Somnus / Thanatos with a poppy wreath around the head and lying on a rock. This is also the case on this coin from 218-222 Na C. Sometimes the brothers are portrayed as one person. Their attributes are the poppy as a soporific plant and the extinguished torch as the extinguished life. The twins Hypnosis and Thanatos personify sleep and death. Pausanias uses the name Epidotes for Hypnos, which means “free giver”, a nickname by which other gods such as Zeus, Mantineia and Sparta are also referred to. There are images of Oneiros and Hypnos lulling a lion to sleep. The Greco-Roman author Pausanias (150 AD) mentioned in his travel guide ‘Description of Greece’ that he saw a temple for Asclepius in the town of Sicyon. Maybe empress Julia Domnus wanted to be seen that way. ![]() For example, a woman in a fur coat looks like a big cat: cuddly, but beware of the claws. Affection of the Belgian painter Fernand KhnopffĪround 1966, designer Rudi Gernreich devised a ‘second skin’ with tiger print because he felt that sexually liberated women should look like jungle beasts Fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa known for his ‘form fitting’ couture clothing as second skin dressed in 1991 are models in leopard prints. Painter and Hypnos adept Fernand Khnopff, painted Hypnos in combination with a Sphinx with panther skin.ĭes caresses, 1896, Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels. If Hypnosis is depicted leaning against a lion or as on julia domna’s coin lies on a leuwen skin then it is thus expressed that sleep controls everything. As she flies over the earth with Hypnos, she brings darkness with her black cape and Hypnos scatters the soporific poppies. The image on the coin is reminiscent of the prints that Mother Nix (Night) represents. Both ended by killer’s hand, and that led Julia Domna to suicide by hunger strike. Her two sons could drink each other’s blood. She was celebrated as the woman who once again gave philosophy a leading position in the Roman Empire and was praised for her political acumen. Domna was one of the most powerful persons in the Severian house and probably one of the most powerful empresses known to the Roman Empire. During her reign she had a coin minted with herself on one side and on the reverse a winged Somnus lying on a lion’s coat and a torch in his hand. Between 193 and 217 (AD) Julia Domna (170 – 217) was Roman Empress. It wasn’t entirely new to put Somnus on a coin. Stars, a crescent moon and wonderful people with Indian headdress and turban stand for exotic dreams. The cow on the right personifies the polished horns gate through which the true dreams fly out. Devilish guises and trampling people tumble out. His ivory tusks refer to the ivory gate from which deceitful dreams come. ![]() The pillars form a gate on the left side and on the right side through which the dreams come out. In the house it is teeming with the Oneiroi (Dreams). In the middle of the niche stands Sleep with poppies in his hand. Night has in her arms her children Sleep (Hypnos) and Death (Thanatos). On top of the building are the goddesses Diana and Night. On the print ‘The Palace of Sleep’ by Hypno (1773) we see a similar temple. On the reverse side of the coin is a tomb temple with Somnus and his brother Thanatos in the niches on the left and right named Mors by the Romans. He died in 309 and father Maxentius had a large mausoleum built for him, in which his body was added. That coin was minted in 310 and 311 AD and, according to the numismatologists (of the Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) shows marcus Valerius Romulus, the son of Maxentius, on the head side. ![]() That’s why they put the sleeping god on the coin himself. In that case, they meant the temple in which Hypnos, whom they called Somnus, also lived. They said to each other ,”A god and mammon can serve” let us put a temple to the money. That “you” of Matthew apparently didn’t make sense to the Romans. Matthew (6:24) explains for a moment why Jesus tipped those tables and chairs: “No one can serve two masters: he will hate the first and love the second,…,You cannot serve God and the mammon.” Clear message: no money in the temple! “And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all of them, who sold and bought in the temple, and the tables of the changers he turned over and the chairs of those who sold the doves, and he said to them, “It is written: My house shalll be a house of prayer, but you make it a den of thieves.” ![]()
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