Search results for "Underworld" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- Originally, in the Ogdoad system, Anubis was god of the underworld ... the test were given renewed life in the Underworld, while those who failed ...19 KB (3,124 words) - 05:49, 11 August 2023
- The myth of Persephone, the dark goddess of the Underworld, also prominently features the pomegranate. In one version of Greek mythology, Persephone ...26 KB (3,898 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- 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 ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 2023
- 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 ...32 KB (5,200 words) - 06:08, 8 March 2024
- 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 ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- 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 ...8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
- votes, finishing ahead of Don DeLillo's Underworld (11 votes), Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (8) and John Updike's Rabbit series ...18 KB (2,615 words) - 03:59, 1 May 2023
- of which are held to be thresholds leading to the underworld. ... In Thailand, the nāga is a wealthy underworld deity. In Laos, by contrast ...17 KB (2,745 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- more established criminals in the Kansas City underworld, he committed a series of bank robberies over the next several years; it was during this ...9 KB (1,370 words) - 22:48, 30 November 2022
- realm of mortals (Midgard) and the frigid underworld (Niflheim), the realm of the dead. These three realms were supported by an enormous tree (Yggdrasil ...19 KB (3,050 words) - 03:59, 18 August 2023
- assuming jurisdiction over the sky, the underworld and the sea, respectively. Neptune was commonly characterized in myth as a violent, ill-tempered ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- and the Cyclopes in Tartarus, the underworld in the bowels of Mother Earth, where they caused her immense pain. Enraged, Gaia shaped a massive ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- 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& ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 18:13, 2 December 2023
- brought to trial by Berlin's criminal underworld. child murderer, cornered by the other underworld figures of the city because ...20 KB (3,151 words) - 07:06, 15 April 2024
- 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 ...11 KB (1,609 words) - 02:49, 5 October 2022
- with the geography and mythology of the underworld. Although Apep was ... the horizon, in the heart of the duat (underworld). In some versions, Apep ...22 KB (3,545 words) - 06:00, 11 August 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,860 words) - 20:30, 3 June 2020
- 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 ...20 KB (3,054 words) - 09:24, 28 January 2024
- 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 ...29 KB (4,585 words) - 10:05, 26 January 2023
