Zeus asked Hera what she was doing there and why she had come from Olympus, and she told him the same lie she told Aphrodite. Zeus was extremely taken by her and suspected nothing as Hypnos was shrouded in a thick mist and hidden upon a pine tree that was close to where Hera and Zeus were talking. Hera went to see Zeus on Gargarus, the topmost peak of Mount Ida. Hypnos made her swear by the river Styx and call on gods of the underworld to be witnesses so that he would be ensured that he would marry Pasithea. Hera finally got him to agree by promising that he would be married to Pasithea, one of the youngest Graces, whom he had always wanted to marry. He refused this first offer, remembering the last time he tricked Zeus. Hera first offered him a beautiful golden seat that can never fall apart and a footstool to go with it. This made Hypnos reluctant to accept Hera's proposal and help her trick Zeus again. Hypnos managed to avoid Zeus by hiding with his mother, Nyx. When Zeus awoke he was furious and went on a rampage looking for Hypnos. So she had Hypnos put Zeus to sleep, and set blasts of angry winds upon the sea while Heracles was still sailing home. She was furious that Heracles, Zeus' son, sacked the city of the Trojans. It was Hera who had asked him to trick Zeus the first time as well. Hypnos was reluctant because the last time he had put the god to sleep, he was furious when he awoke. Hera called on Hypnos and asked him to help her by putting Zeus to sleep. Hera was almost ready to trick Zeus, but she needed the help of Hypnos, who had tricked Zeus once before. She told Aphrodite that she wanted the charm to help herself and Zeus stop fighting. In order to procure the charm, however, she lied to Aphrodite because they sided on opposite sides of the war. She then called for Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and asked her for a charm that would ensure that her trick would not fail. She wove flowers through her hair, put on three brilliant pendants for earrings, and donned a wondrous robe. So she washed herself with ambrosia and anointed herself with oil, made especially for her to make herself impossible to resist for Zeus. She decided that in order to trick him she needed to make him so enamoured with her that he would fall for the trick. During the war, Hera loathed her brother and husband, Zeus, so she devised a plot to trick him. Hypnos was able to trick him and help the Danaans win the Trojan War. Hypnos and Thanatos carrying the body of Sarpedon from the battlefield of Troy detail from an Attic white-ground lekythos, ca. Pasithea is the goddess of hallucination or relaxation. His wife, Pasithea, was one of the youngest of the Charites and was promised to him by Hera, who is the goddess of marriage and birth. Nyx was a dreadful and powerful goddess, and even Zeus feared to enter her realm. However, sometimes he was the son of Nyx and Erebus, the god of Darkness. Hypnos' mother was Nyx (Νύξ, "Night"), the goddess of Night, without a father. Hypnos lived next to his twin brother, Thanatos (Θάνατος, "death") in the Underworld, where the rays of the sun never reach them. He is said to be a calm and gentle god, as he helps humans in need and, due to their sleep, owns half of their lives. According to Homer, he lives on the island Lemnos, which later on has been claimed to be his very own dream-island.
No light and no sound would ever enter his grotto. His bed is made of ebony, on the entrance of the cave grow a number of poppies and other soporific plants. According to rumors, Hypnos lived in a big cave, which the river Lethe ("Forgetfulness") comes from and where night and day meet. Both siblings live in the underworld ( Hades). Hypnos is usually the fatherless son of Nyx ("The Night"), although sometimes Nyx's consort Erebus ("The Darkness") is named as his father.
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