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Underworld See also Hell. Unfaithfulness (See FAITHLESSNESS.) Ungratefulness (See INGRATITUDE.) Unkindness (See CRUELTY, INHOSPITALITY.) Aidoneus epithet of Hades. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 14] hidden world where the sun sets. [Egypt. Myth.: Leach, 42] lesser Sumerian underworld deities. [Sumerian Myth.: Benét, 41] entrance through which Orpheus descended to Hades. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 25] desolate land of no return. [Babyl. Myth.: Leach, 69] entrance to the maw. [Rom. Lit.: Aeneid; Art: Hall, 147] god of nether world; identified with Pluto. [Rom. Myth.: Leach, 315] one of the Egyptian abodes of the dead. [Egypt. Myth.: Benét, 290]
god of underground darkness. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 319] queen of underworld; Persephone equivalent. [Sumerian Myth.: Benét, 319–320] realm of departed spirits. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 499] ruled over world of the dead. [Norse Myth.: Leach, 488] god ruling the world of dead. [Sumerian and Akkadian Myth.: Parrinder, 203] region of perpetual cold and darkness; afterworld. [Norse Myth.: Wheeler, 259] of emblem of Hecate, goddess of the underworld. [Gk. Myth.: Jobes, 374] nether world of the dead. [Rom. Myth.: Wheeler, 270] god of underworld. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 224 ] abode of the dead. [Hebrew Theology: Brewer Dictionary, 499] river of Hades across which souls of dead must travel. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 259] infernal regions. [Gk. Myth.: Hall, 147] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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For a long time he wandered sadly all through the beautiful underworld, and one day he met a magician who asked him the cause of his tears. But it is just in that cold, abominable half despair, half belief, in that conscious burying oneself alive for grief in the underworld for forty years, in that acutely recognised and yet partly doubtful hopelessness of one's position, in that hell of unsatisfied desires turned inward, in that fever of oscillations, of resolutions determined for ever and repented of again a minute later--that the savour of that strange enjoyment of which I have spoken lies. 6; and a whole wonderful underworld of lace and linen and silk stockings, the counterpart of which wonders, my clairvoyant fancy laughed to think, were at the moment--so entirely unsuspected of their original owner--my delicious possessions. |
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