Hypnos

Traditional interpretation

Hypnos was a primordial deity in Greek mythology, the personification of sleep. He lived in a cave next to his twin brother, Thanatos, in the underworld, where no light was cast by the sun or the moon; the earth in front of the cave was full of poppies and other sleep-inducing plants.

How neuromythography uses

Sandman--pushes us towards sleep

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The vLPO contains neurons that are required for the warm ambient‐evoked inhibition of muscle shivering and of BAT thermogenesis, mediated through a direct or indirect GABAergic input to rRPa from vLPO.

Archetype represents the Ventral Lateral PreOptic [VLPO].

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