The Adventures of Ulysses
“Who was Morpheus? He was a young god, son of Hypnos, God of Sleep, and nephew of Hades. It was his task to fly around the world, from nightfall to dawn, scattering sleep. His father, Hypnos, mixed the colors of sleep for him, making them dark and thick and sad.
“For,” he said, “it is a little death you lay upon man each night, my son, to prepare him for the kingdom of death.”
But his aunt, Persephone, sewed him a secret pocket, full of bright things, and said: “It is not death you scatter, but ...repose. Hang the walls of sleep with bright pictures, so that man may not know death before he dies.”
These bright pictures were called dreams. And Morpheus became fascinated by the way a little corner of man’s mind remained awake in sleep, and played with the colors he had hung, mixing them, pulling them apart, making new pictures. It seemed to him that these fantastic colored shadows the sleepers painted were the most beautiful, most puzzling things he had ever seen. And he wanted to know more about how they came to be.MoreLess
“For,” he said, “it is a little death you lay upon man each night, my son, to prepare him for the kingdom of death.”
But his aunt, Persephone, sewed him a secret pocket, full of bright things, and said: “It is not death you scatter, but ...repose. Hang the walls of sleep with bright pictures, so that man may not know death before he dies.”
These bright pictures were called dreams. And Morpheus became fascinated by the way a little corner of man’s mind remained awake in sleep, and played with the colors he had hung, mixing them, pulling them apart, making new pictures. It seemed to him that these fantastic colored shadows the sleepers painted were the most beautiful, most puzzling things he had ever seen. And he wanted to know more about how they came to be.MoreLess
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