Mors’s Family Tree

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Family

• Nox(parent),Somnus(sibling)

  Nox (Night) bore the twin brothers Somnus (Sleep) and Mors (Death). Virgil calls them "consanguinei" — blood-brothers who share dominion over the hours of darkness, one bringing rest and the other bringing the final sleep.

Equivalent to

• Thanatos(Greek)

  Thanatos, the Greek god of peaceful death, passed into Roman tradition as Mors, pale Death who stands with his twin Sleep at the entrance to the underworld.