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Morpheus
The Greek god of dreams. He lies on a ebony bed in a dim-lit cave,
surrounded by poppies. He appears to humans in their dreams in the shape of
a man. He is responsible for shaping dreams, or giving shape to the beings
which inhabit dreams. Morpheus, known from Ovid's Metamorphoses, plays
no part in Greek mythology. His name means "he who forms, or
molds" (from the Greek morphe), and is mentioned as the son of
Hypnos, the god
of sleep.
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