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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. ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 19:19, 13 February 2024
- #039;s opera "Orpheus in the Underworld," caused great controversy ... speaking world are Orpheus in the Underworld, La vie parisienne, La ...11 KB (1,730 words) - 08:34, 18 March 2024
- Dilmun, the home of the gods, to the Underworld, for raping the his future ... . After Ninlil followed him to the underworld, Enlil disguised himself ...12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
- adequately when she became lost in the Underworld. The god's sojourn ... ====Descent into the Underworld==== According to the myth of Inanna ...16 KB (2,459 words) - 04:00, 27 February 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- , Aidēs) refers to both the ancient Greek underworld and to the deity ... The deceased were said to enter the underworld by crossing the Acheron ...23 KB (3,693 words) - 16:36, 21 January 2024
- 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 ...11 KB (1,785 words) - 17:00, 23 December 2022
- the earth. Persephone had gone into the underworld (underground, like seeds ... seen by Hades, the god of death to his underworld kingdom. Distraught, Demeter ...18 KB (2,798 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- 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 ...19 KB (3,011 words) - 02:17, 18 November 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:45, 24 July 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- assembly of the gods then banishes Enlil to the underworld for this transgression. Ninlil, knowing she is pregnant with the "bright seed of Sîn ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 08:45, 9 October 2022
- Poland and his treatment of the Odessa underworld, were innovative for both ... Red Cavalry, were published in Jewish underworld before and after the Russian ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 18:50, 7 March 2024
- 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 ...23 KB (3,678 words) - 06:01, 11 August 2023
- souls of ancestors and other ghosts back to the underworld. [http://en.people.cn/90002/98669/98755/6798883.html Chinese Ghost Festival - "the ...19 KB (2,824 words) - 18:53, 21 May 2024
- , 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 ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- 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 ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 00:00, 13 February 2024
- quot;) may also be translated as "underworld," "netherworld ... The Hellenistic views of heroic descent into the Underworld and successful ...14 KB (2,171 words) - 13:30, 24 January 2023
- to Nergal, the Mesopotamian god of the underworld who is listed upon god ... This reference to the underworld suggests that the fate of children ...20 KB (3,200 words) - 21:06, 21 December 2022
- 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 ...14 KB (2,343 words) - 06:55, 14 June 2023
- 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
- in three, Zeus received the sky, Hades the underworld and Poseidon the sea. Powell, 149. ===Homeric Hymn to Poseidon=== The hymn to Poseidon included ...11 KB (1,681 words) - 05:44, 30 November 2022
- Attack, The Prodigy, Orbital, Propellerheads, Underworld, Björk, and Moby, continue to release albums and perform regularly (sometimes in stadium-sized ...23 KB (3,345 words) - 16:02, 13 February 2024
- the wife of Hades and goddess of the underworld. Furanocoumarins in parsley's seed coat may be responsible for parsley's problematic ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 08:53, 18 November 2022
- 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). ...23 KB (3,735 words) - 10:04, 26 January 2023
- 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 ...22 KB (3,332 words) - 06:15, 13 June 2023
- of mortals (Midgard) and the frigid underworld (Niflheim), which housed ... at which point she returns to the underworld, leaving Odin to contemplate ...33 KB (5,117 words) - 10:01, 11 March 2023
- Germanic folklore, Rübezahl, the lord over the underworld, was sometimes referred to as a mountain gnome. Germany made gnomes famous in the mid ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 08:03, 24 January 2023
- the dead. A late Babylonian text makes him the underworld prison warder. The Phoenician inscription on the sarcophagus of King Eshmunʿazar of ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- 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 ...12 KB (1,976 words) - 21:20, 30 April 2023
- fanciful, narratives of the Elizabethan underworld. Unfortunately, these speculations ... service as well as to the London underworld. Frizer and Skeres also ...25 KB (3,850 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
