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  • Ereshkigal (lit. "Great Lady under the Earth") was the goddess of the land of the dead, the Underworld, in Mesopotamian mythology. ...
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  • #039;s opera "Orpheus in the Underworld," caused great controversy ... speaking world are Orpheus in the Underworld, La vie parisienne, La ...
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  • Dilmun, the home of the gods, to the Underworld, for raping the his future ... . After Ninlil followed him to the underworld, Enlil disguised himself ...
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  • adequately when she became lost in the Underworld. The god's sojourn ... ====Descent into the Underworld==== According to the myth of Inanna ...
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  • Ishtar is the tale of her descent to the underworld. One of the most striking ... he made for Ishtar were dropped into the underworld. Gilgamesh cannot reach ...
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  • , Aidēs) refers to both the ancient Greek underworld and to the deity ... The deceased were said to enter the underworld by crossing the Acheron ...
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  • Satre, which referred to a god of the underworld who was responsible for ... then Saturn may have originally been a underworld deity linked to funerary ...
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  • the earth. Persephone had gone into the underworld (underground, like seeds ... seen by Hades, the god of death to his underworld kingdom. Distraught, Demeter ...
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  • On their advice, Orpheus traveled to the underworld, using his music to soften ... the trustworthiness of the King of the Underworld&mash;perhaps his seemingly ...
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  • but later sent down to rule in Yomi, the underworld (Nihongi 18-19). According ... Izanagi descended to Yomi (the underworld) in hopes of bringing back ...
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  • In Greek mythology, Orion was both a great hunter, who met Ulysses in the underworld, and also a constellation amongst the stars. His story is ...
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  • assembly of the gods then banishes Enlil to the underworld for this transgression. Ninlil, knowing she is pregnant with the "bright seed of Sîn ...
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  • Poland and his treatment of the Odessa underworld, were innovative for both ... Red Cavalry, were published in Jewish underworld before and after the Russian ...
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  • and ask Persephone, the queen of the underworld, for a small measure of ... After Psyche left the underworld, she decided to open the box and ...
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  • souls of ancestors and other ghosts back to the underworld. [http://en.people.cn/90002/98669/98755/6798883.html Chinese Ghost Festival - "the ...
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  • , Odysseus makes a voyage to Hades, the Underworld, and raises the spirits ... Ovid writes of a marketplace in the underworld, where the dead could exchange ...
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  • the deceased and his journey through the underworld to join the company of ... *Chapters 1-16 The deceased enters the tomb, descends to the underworld ...
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  • quot;) may also be translated as "underworld," "netherworld ... The Hellenistic views of heroic descent into the Underworld and successful ...
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  • to Nergal, the Mesopotamian god of the underworld who is listed upon god ... This reference to the underworld suggests that the fate of children ...
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  • linked to the god Osiris, the god of the Underworld, to indicate the everlasting ... of Ptah, the god connected with the Underworld, who always remained in ...
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  • in Tartarus, the deepest part of the underworld, with a few exceptions–those who didn't fight with Kronos. Atlas was part of a "second ...
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  • Originally, in the Ogdoad system, Anubis was god of the underworld ... the test were given renewed life in the Underworld, while those who failed ...
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  • The myth of Persephone, the dark goddess of the Underworld, also prominently features the pomegranate. In one version of Greek mythology, Persephone ...
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  • symbolic axis mundi connecting the planes of the Underworld and the sky with that of the terrestrial world. Depictions of world trees are found in the ...
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  • was associated with Osiris, god of the underworld (Duat), and thus was considered ... of the replacement of another god of the underworld when the cult of Osiris ...
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  • their dungeon in Tartarus, a shadowy underworld region. As a token of their ... Poseidon drew the waters, Hades the underworld, and Zeus the sky and air ...
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  • Judaism described life after death as a bleak underworld named Sheol, which was known as the common pit or grave of humanity. However, with the influence ...
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  • votes, finishing ahead of Don DeLillo's Underworld (11 votes), Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (8) and John Updike's Rabbit series ...
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  • of which are held to be thresholds leading to the underworld. ... In Thailand, the nāga is a wealthy underworld deity. In Laos, by contrast ...
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  • more established criminals in the Kansas City underworld, he committed a series of bank robberies over the next several years; it was during this ...
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  • realm of mortals (Midgard) and the frigid underworld (Niflheim), the realm of the dead. These three realms were supported by an enormous tree (Yggdrasil ...
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  • assuming jurisdiction over the sky, the underworld and the sea, respectively. Neptune was commonly characterized in myth as a violent, ill-tempered ...
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  • and the Cyclopes in Tartarus, the underworld in the bowels of Mother Earth, where they caused her immense pain. Enraged, Gaia shaped a massive ...
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  • Qur'an: A Dog at the Gate of the Underworld," Journal of Qur& ... Qur'an: A Dog at the Gate of the Underworld," Journal of Qur& ...
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  • brought to trial by Berlin's criminal underworld. child murderer, cornered by the other underworld figures of the city because ...
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  • until they discovered it deep in the underworld, with a saint, who was Kapila, sitting next to it in meditation. Eager to recapture the horse ...
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  • with the geography and mythology of the underworld. Although Apep was ... the horizon, in the heart of the duat (underworld). In some versions, Apep ...
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  • and the one-eyed Cyclopes, in the underworld of Tartarus so that they would not be able to see the light of day. This evoked Gaia's enmity ...
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  • consort of Hades (Roman Pluto, the underworld god of wealth) and is taken from her mother's side into her new spouse's dusky kingdom ...
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  • to the god's reanimation in the underworld, he was magically resurrected ... the sun god's journey through the underworld. Thus, he was often depicted ...
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  • in three, Zeus received the sky, Hades the underworld and Poseidon the sea. Powell, 149. ===Homeric Hymn to Poseidon=== The hymn to Poseidon included ...
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  • Attack, The Prodigy, Orbital, Propellerheads, Underworld, Björk, and Moby, continue to release albums and perform regularly (sometimes in stadium-sized ...
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  • the wife of Hades and goddess of the underworld. Furanocoumarins in parsley's seed coat may be responsible for parsley's problematic ...
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  • quot;) who guarded the entrance to the underworld. He is often seen as the ... was a serpent god who ruled the underworld (and made fruit trees bloom). ...
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  • first humans came from four caves in the underworld. The Earth was a dangerous ... is a hairy giant that lived in the underworld; it has huge eyes and human ...
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  • of mortals (Midgard) and the frigid underworld (Niflheim), which housed ... at which point she returns to the underworld, leaving Odin to contemplate ...
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  • Germanic folklore, Rübezahl, the lord over the underworld, was sometimes referred to as a mountain gnome. Germany made gnomes famous in the mid ...
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  • the dead. A late Babylonian text makes him the underworld prison warder. The Phoenician inscription on the sarcophagus of King Eshmunʿazar of ...
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  • spirit of Revenge, who accompanies him to the underworld: he and Balthazar had been caught up in a dispute over a beautiful woman, Bel-Imperia, with ...
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  • fanciful, narratives of the Elizabethan underworld. Unfortunately, these speculations ... service as well as to the London underworld. Frizer and Skeres also ...
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  • to the present life, and the conception of the underworld is the same as in the body of Old Testament writings. There is no reference to ethical immortality ...
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  • descending path of the sun-god into the underworld,Strudwick and Strudwick ... from Amduat ('That Which is in the Underworld'), with describes ...
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  • , the world of man (earth), and the underworld. At first, heaven and earth ... between the heaven world and the underworld by means of rituals, of ...
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  • Tartarus (Greek: meaning "underworld of darkness") is mentioned in 2:4 as holding certain fallen angels, described in the Epistle of ...
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  • injured, represented the Muslim underworld's retaliation for the demolition of the Babri Mosque. A strong earthquake in Latur, Maharashtra ...
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  • defeats Mot in battle, Shemesh descends to the Underworld and retrieves Baal's body, allowing his resurrection and the eventual return of spring ...
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  • connected Satan with darkness, the underworld, sexual impropriety, and ... notions of Satan where he dwells in the underworld realm and related to the ...
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  • *1956 The Underworld - directed by Kajiro Yamamoto *1956 Settlement ... *1959 Boss of the Underworld - directed by Kihachi Okamoto ...
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  • that he could have been murdered by some of his underworld contacts. In the opinion of some, the case of Liston's death remains unsolved. ...
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  • Cumaean Sibyl, who conducts him through the Underworld and reveals his destiny to him. Aeneas is reborn as the creator of Imperial Rome. ...
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  • lives in the Tuoni river located in Tuonela, the underworld realm of the dead. According to the story, whoever killed a swan would perish as well. Jean ...
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  • that the cosmos has three major planes: the underworld, the sky, and the earth. The Mayan Underworld was reached through caves and ball courts. It ...
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  • people: There is a heaven where God sits and an underworld, where go the dead. Evidence suggests that the cosmology of the Bible assumed that the Earth ...
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  • plot of a man following his deceased wife to the underworld remained. And, as the myth goes, he was allowed to return with her under the condition that ...
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  • angered Persephone, wife of the king of the underworld, and Persephone turned her into the pungently sweet-smelling mint (Herbst 2001). The word itself ...
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  • and therefore subsequently banished to the underworld. Thereafter, the world was rebuilt by Olodumare and during this second creation the Orishas ...
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  • * May, Robert E. Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering ... * May, Robert E. Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering ...
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  • 3A05752C0A96E958260 The Turkish Underworld.] Retrieved September 15, 2008. Çiller resigned in September 1995. However, when her government won ...
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  • death, she sent an emissary (Hermodr) to the Underworld to speak to its queen (Hel), in an attempt to ransom her unfortunate son. The icy queen agreed ...
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  • after Pluto, the ancient Roman god of the underworld. Volcanic rocks are named after Vulcan, the Roman name for the god of fire. === Origin of ...
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  • of Zeus and Persephone, the queen of the underworld. A jealous Hera again attempted ... the emergence of Dionysos from the underworld with wild orgies in the ...
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  • shocked but not disgusted. The more unpleasant underworld of Victorian city life was revealed by Henry Mayhew in his articles and book London Labour ...
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  • in which ghosts and spirits come out from the underworld to visit the living. ====Africa cultures==== In some African cultures, visits to the ...
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  • Inanna sets out on a journey to the underworld in order to console her grieving sister Ereshkigal, who is mourning the death of her husband Gugalana ...
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  • Orestes is tormented by the Furies, underworld demigods that avenge patricide and matricide. He finds refuge and solace at the new temple of ...
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  • ‘Anat to enlist Shapash, the goddess of the Underworld, to help her find him. Shaphash retrieves Ba‘al from Sheol and Ba‘al confronts Mot (who ...
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  • in the binding of Apep (in the underworld), see "[http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/gate/gate27.htm The Gate of Am-Netu-F: The Eleventh Division ...
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  • of the dead and inhabitants from the underworld were able to walk free ... children dress up as creatures from the underworld (ghosts, ghouls, zombies ...
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  • (the Judgment Hall or Hall of the Underworld) which boasts ten figures of judges seated around the room. Chingang Posal, the bodhisattva who ...
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  • linked to the god Osiris, the god of the Underworld, to indicate the everlasting ... of Ptah, the god connected with the Underworld, who always remained in ...
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  • sending Enkidu on a mission to the Underworld to retrieve objects sacred to Ishtar/Inanna, which Gilgamesh has lost. It ends with a discussion ...
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  • film as Munna Bhai, a Mumbai (Bombay) underworld don, who begins to see ... Circuit and Munna Bhai to conduct "underworld" activities for him ...
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  • for his control of large portions of the Chicago underworld and his bitter rivalries with North Side gangsters such as Dion O’Banion, Bugs Moran, and ...
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  • period. First, the Book of What is in the Underworld, an important funerary text used in the New Kingdom, is believed to have come into its final form ...
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  • the popular accordionist, Guerino, in underworld Parisian dance halls. ===Rebirth as a Jazz Musician=== Reinhardt's talents and reputation ...
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  • rocks, named after Pluto, the Roman god of the underworld. ==See also== * Basalt * Granite * Metamorphic rock * Mineral * Petrology ...
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  • and to move the stony hearts of the underworld gods in his descent to ... philandering; Hades, the god of the underworld; Poseidon, the god of seas ...
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  • in Egyptian tombs to repel demons from the underworld. In some other cultures, frogs and toad have had less than positive connotations, being correlated ...
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  • remain a significant threat within the criminal underworld. Programs to spread awareness of the problem, as well as the efforts of law enforcement agencies ...
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  • Trojan War; and trans-Neptunian objects, after underworld spirits. ===Asteroid symbols=== The first few asteroids discovered were assigned symbols ...
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  • serpent Tahum and the intersection of the underworld and upper world. It is also called the Foundation Stone. According to the sages of the Talmud ...
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  • masturbation.Andrew McCall, The Medieval Underworld (Hamish Hamilton, 1979 ... *McCall, Andrew. The Medieval Underworld. Hamish Hamilton, 1979. ISBN ...
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  • horse. They found it in the nether-world (or Underworld) next to a meditating sage Kapila. Believing that the sage had stolen the horse, they hurled ...
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  • that the souls of the dead go to Coaybay, the underworld, and there they rest by day, and when night comes they assume the form of bats and eat the ...
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  • ethnography of the organs-trafficking underworld"] Ethnography, No. 1 (2004): 29-73. In this research she followed organs as they were ...
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  • basic is the idea of the journey of a hero to an underworld, in an attempt to attain powers that he can bring back to save his world from an evil, that ...
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  • escaped death with the help of an underworld official. The third and longest section of the work is chapters 13–100, an episodic adventure story ...
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  • of the fallen Angels (stars). Sheol or the Underworld. This introduction to the Book of Enoch tells us that Enoch is "a just man, whose eyes ...
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  • However, the god of the underworld, Mot, soon lures Baal to his death, spelling ruin for the land. His sister Anat (possibly identified with ...
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  • ocean above the heavens, and an ocean of the underworld below (compare Rasā, Varuna). This is evidenced for example in the account of Noah's ...
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