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Soul/Spirit "breath" |
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House of Hades
"The Underworld |
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Homer
An exception to Erebos
Paradise at the edge of the earth
A few heroes get to go here and can become Gods |
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Mortals eternally punished (with pain) in Erebos of Tartaros |
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"unburied" haunt the earth if not buried
important to a proper burial |
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"Laying out" of body during a greek funeral |
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"carrying out" of body |
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A grave marker used for funeral purposes |
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Grave marker
Can have images of people visiting a grave |
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A city in NW anatolia
Setting for Trojan War, as described in the Iliad
Discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in the late 1800s
Found Cities on top of Cities |
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Gold and other artifacts discovered by Heinrich owned by Troy's King Priam
Heinrich's wife wore some of the jewelry |
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"Renown" or "Glory"
A Greek hero earns Keloys through accomplishing great deeds |
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First age of man that denotes peace, harmony, stability and prosperity |
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Aneaus visits Sibyll(prophetess) and after his oracle, she tells him to get the golden bough so he can visit his dad in the underworld.
Aneas shows Charon the GB and he lets them cross the river
Used in the story written by "Aeneid" written by Vergil |
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Egyptian
Life force. Kind of like your ghostly double
Needs sustenance in the afterlife
actual offerings given resides in heart if alive and in tobe if dead
A kings Ka is called Horus |
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Personality of a person, pre presented as a bird living-exists with breath of life; dead flieds around the tomb |
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Egyptian
A persons shadow is inseparable from them and if devoured your soul is destroyed |
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Egyptian
A name marks individuality
Preservation of the name in the tomb
if name is obliterated, a person's memory is lost |
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Egyptian
The transfigured sould (the sould on a path to a good afterlife) that resides in the underworld
Contains the other 4 things (Ka, Ba, Shadow & Name)
Ensure by magic spells that are said over mummy
Damned souls cannot become akh |
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Underworld
Seen as dark and dusty, usually 7 gates each w/guard usually no river
earth/ground or mountain |
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Mesopotamian(Sumerian)
Underworld
Seen as dark and dusty, usually 7 gates each w/guard usually no river
earth/ground or mountain |
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Mesopotamian(Akkadian)
"The land of no return"
Underworld |
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Mesopotamian
Spirits of the underworld
Demons |
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Mesopotamian
Spirits without proper burial who wander around, always thirsty. Can haunt living of no funerary offerings are provided |
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The soul escorter in the underworld
Crosses boundaries; seen as a sort of trickster |
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A ferryman that takes souls across the river Stys to Erebos
Leads Aeneas and the Sibyll accoss the river in Aeneid |
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Guard Dog at the entrance to Erebos
3 heads and a snake for a tail |
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Queen of the underworld; Also called Kore
Daughter of Demeter
Abductedby Hades to be his wife and a Homeric Hymn tells Demeter about it
Zeus demands she spend 1/3 of year in underworld and 2/3 of year with mother |
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Persephone's mom
Finds out about daughters abduction through hymn
Gets her daughter 2/3 of year
Ate part of Pelop's shoulder when Dad (Tantalos) tried feeding him to the gods |
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Goddess associate with underworld, Demeter & Persephone later linked to witchcraft, moon and night |
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Female spirit of vengeance |
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Cosmic sinner with an unclear offense
Rolls a boulder up a hill eternally for it to fall back down |
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Cosmic sinner. Giant that tries to rape Leto
Killed by Letos childeren (Apollo and Artemis) |
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Tried feeding his son Pelops to the gods
Demeter eats part of Pelops shoulder
Forever tantalized by water and fruit that disappears when he reaches it |
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In book XI of the Odyssey
Odysseus goes to the underworld to seem him so he can find out how to get home. Eventually meets with him after speaking with friends and old acquaintances. Drinks the blood Odysseus has for him and offers prophecy |
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Odysseus helmsman
left unburied
Asks Odysseus to find his body and give proper burial |
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Odysseus' mom
Describes the underworld & the state of the deceased to him |
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Talks to Odysseus when he is in the underworld. Odysseus tells him that he was adored by all even when alive but now dead he is a prince to them. Achilles says it isnt worth it and he would rather be a paid servant in a poor mans house |
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Married to Eurydice
Eurydice is bitten on the ankle by a snake and dies so Orpheus goes to the underworld to get her back.
He convinves Persephone and Hades to give her back by singing to them under one condition - dont look back at her when going to the light - he looks back and she gets sucked back in.
Forever shuns women, he is killed and eventually ends up back with Eurydice |
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Married to Orpheus. Dies and goes to Underworld. Almost saved by husband Orpheus but he screws up. Eventually end up together |
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Hades, God of the Underworld
Gives Orpheus a second chance but it doesnt work out |
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Main charachter of Vergil's Aeneid.
Visits underworld to see ghost of father and learn destiny of nation after Trojan War.
Visits Sibyll's cave and is guided by her. Tells him of fate and Greeks and Aeneas wants to see his dad again
Goes to Underworld with Sibyll and finds father and he tells them of the cycle of life, death, and rebirth |
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Prophetess
Gives Apollo's oracle to Aeneas and goes with him to the underworld to find his dad |
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Who Aeneas has to bury before he can go to the underworld |
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The Elysian fields in the story of Aeneid
Aeneas and Sibyll arrive and find Aeneas' dad by the river |
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Aeneas' dad
Explains cycle of life, death and rebirth and aboue Aenea's descendants yet to be born |
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Said to be reborn by word of Anchises
First emperor of Roman Empire |
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Queen of underworld, wife and sister to Osiris
Distraught that husband is sent to sea in a chest and searches for it. Finds it but Seth takes it and cuts it up and scatters it in the Nile. She finds him all but the dick. She reanimates Orisirs and he becomes the king of the underworld.
Later, she is an important deity all around Mediterranean. Involved is mystery cult in Rom after conquest of Egypt. Seen as beneveolent, merciful mother who controls sky and water |
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Kind of Underworld; Married to Isis
First is King of Egypt and brings civilization and order
He is tricked into getting into a chest by Seth and is sent to sea. Found by Wife, but captured again and killed by Seth. Then becomes king of Underworld |
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Trickster, Married to sister Nepthys
Tricks Osiris into getting into a chest, sends it to sea and then eventually kills him and becomes King of Egypt but is then defeated and succeeded by Horus |
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Seth's wife and sister |
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Son of Isis and Osiris
Defeats Seth to become King of Egypt
Egyptian Pharaoh's are avatars/incarnations of Horus |
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Jackal God (Therianthropic)
Mummifying god
Escorts souls of the dead
Weights heart against feather of Maat and if heart is heavier it is devoured by Amamet and the soul is damned |
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Goddess of truth, justice law and order |
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Monster that devours the heart if it is heavier than a feather |
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Ibis god or baboon. God of Wisdom and Writing. Scribe for Osiris |
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