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Tartarus is the place where, according to Plato's Gorgias (c. 400 BC), souls are judged after death and where the wicked received divine punishment. Tartarus appears in early Greek cosmology, such as in Hesiod's Theogony, where the personified Tartarus is described as one of the earliest beings to exist, alongside Chaos and Gaia (Earth).
Batara Guru - avatar of Hindu god Shiva and ruler of the Kahyangan, god of revelations; Batara Sambu - god of teachers; Batara Kala - god of the underworld; Dewi Lanjar - goddess who rules the North Sea
Hesiod's Theogony, (c. 700 BC) which could be considered the "standard" creation myth of Greek mythology, [1] tells the story of the genesis of the gods. After invoking the Muses (II.1–116), Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose Chaos (Chasm); then came Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim" Tartarus (the Underworld), in ...
The mythology of Indonesia is very diverse, the Indonesian people consisting of hundreds of ethnic groups, each with their own myths and legends that explain the origin of their people, the tales of their ancestors and the demons or deities in their belief systems. The tendency to syncretize by overlying older traditions with newer foreign ...
The way this place is described, Dudael is sometimes considered as a region of the underworld, comparable to Tartarus [2] [3] or Gehenna. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] See also
The head deity of the Proto-Indo-European pantheon was the god *Dyḗws Ph₂tḗr, [111] whose name literally means "Sky Father". [ 111 ] [ 112 ] [ 113 ] Regarded as the Sky or Day conceived as a divine entity, and thus the dwelling of the gods, the Heaven, [ 114 ] Dyēws is, by far, the most well-attested of all the Proto-Indo-European deities.
According to Hesiod's Theogony and Bibliotheca, Astraeus is a second-generation Titan descended from Crius and Eurybia. [3] However, Hyginus wrote that he was descended directly from Tartarus and Gaia and referred to him as one of the Gigantes.
Tartarus refers to a deity and place in Greek mythology. Tartarus may also refer to: Tartarus, a Greek New Testament word used for Hell (in Christian belief), derived from the pagan Greek use. Tartaros, a Norwegian black metal solo project by Charmand Grimloch aka Joachim Rygg. Tartarus, a genus of spiders in the family Stiphidiidae.