Sentences with phrase «greek god of the underworld»

It has Hades, the Greek god of the underworld in it and it makes me feel like Greek mythology that I enjoy to date.

Hades, of course, is the ancient Greek god of the underworld, the god of death.

The name, for the Greek god of the underworld, reflects the original conception of the age: dark and hellish and inhospitable to life.

«Deepest cave - dwelling centipede discovered: Centipede named after Hades — the Greek god of the underworld.»

Carbon with an organic - like signature has been discovered sealed within a crystal that formed 4.1 billion years ago, during a period of Earth's history named after Hades, the mythological Greek god of the underworld.

Not exact matches

The Greeks had both their underworld and the God of it named Hades.

It applies not only to the god of the underworld, but also to the underworld itself, and in Greek mythology the souls of those who defied the gods were tortured there, doing things like rolling rocks uphill forever.

The power of the human Orpheus to coerce nature and the gods of the underworld was an extraordinary message in traditional Greek religion.11 This image of human triumph helped make Orpheus founder and hero of the Orphic mysteries, a cultic practice noted for personal asceticism and accomplishment, 12 that demonstrated the immortality of the human soul.

By convention, the moons» names come out of Greek mythology, in this case from stories related to Pluto, the god of the underworld.

Recorded as deep as -1100 m the new species was named Geophilus hadesi, after Hades, the God of the Underworld in the Greek Mythology.

Since the dwarf planet was originally named for Pluto, the god of the underworld in Greek mythology, many of the new titles have been plucked from various underworld myths from around the globe.

Supermen may not be all that impressed by meteors or earthquakes, but in the Chaos King we have a villain who is destroying the Dream Realm, the Underworld, the pantheons of the Norse, Greek, and all the other gods in Marvel U.

There are some pretty badass interpretations of some of these characters, such as Hades, the Greek King of the Underworld, or Sobek, the Egyptian god of the Nile.

Kore means «maiden» in Greek, and is another name for the goddess Persephone, the myth of whose abduction by Hades — god of the underworld, of which Persephone became queen — is the subject of Agamben's book.