Dis & Orcus are alternative names for this god of the underworld
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Pluto - King of the Underworld - Crystalinks  Pluto was the Roman god of the underworld and the judge of the dead. Pluto is an alternative name for the Greek god Hades, but was more often used in Roman mythology in their presentation of the god of the underworld. He abducted Proserpina (Gr. Persephone), and her mother Ceres (Gr.
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Pluto (mythology) - Wikipedia  Pluto (Greek: , Ploutn) was the ruler of the underworld in classical mythology. The earlier name for the god was Hades, which became more common as ... Pluto's Roman equivalent is Dis Pater, whose name is most often taken to mean ... obscure Roman Orcus, like Hades the name of both a god of the underworld...
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Hades - Wikipedia  Hades was the ancient Greek chthonic god of the underworld, which eventually took his name. ... The Etruscan god Aita and Roman gods Dis Pater and Orcus were .... Another myth is about the Roman god Asclepius who was originally a...
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Orcus - Wikipedia  Orcus (Latin: Orcus) was a god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths in Italic and Roman mythology. As with Hades, the name of the god was also used for the underworld itself. In the later tradition, he was conflated with Dis Pater. ... This was because Orcus was sometimes considered to be another name for Pluto,...
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Ds Pater - Wikipedia  Ds Pater was a Roman god of the underworld, later subsumed by Pluto or Hades (Hades was Greek). Ds Pater was commonly shortened to simply Ds. It is often thought that Ds Pater was also a Celtic god.
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Gods of Ancient Egypt: Anubis - Ancient Egypt Online  Anubis is the Greek version of his name, the ancient Egyptians knew him as Anpu (or Inpu). ... underworld, but became associated specifically with the embalming process and funeral rites. ... Priests wore Anubis masks during mummification. ... He was usually depicted as a man with the head of a jackal and alert ears, often...
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Orpheus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Oct 2, 2005 ... The mythical figure of Orpheus was borrowed by the Greeks from their Thracian ... close to goao, "to lament, sing wildly, cast a spell", uniting his seemingly disparate ... However, when Orpheus heard the Sirens, he drew his lyre and played ... Here his death is analogous with the death of Dionysus, to whom...
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HADES - The Underworld of Greek Mythology  In Greek mythology the Domos Haidou (House of Hades) was the land of the ... The land of the dead was enclosed by the Akherousian Lake and three rivers--the Styx, .... though the dead forget the dead in Aides, even there I shall still remember ..... One day they live in turn, and one day they are dead; and they have won...
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Hades, god of death and the dead, king of the underworld - Greek ...  Hades was rarely seen outside his domain, but was allowed to have powers also on ... his hands full with the Underworld where he was dubbed as merciless ruler ... hero and would let him take his pet, if he was able to wrestle and outmatch it.
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Charon (mythology) - Wikipedia  In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon is the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. .... Charon, the second dwarf planet of the Pluto-Charon system, is named after .... Greek death gods  Greek underworld.
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Anubis, Ancient Egyptian God of Embalming and the Dead  Oct 8, 2001 ... Anubis was an ancient Egyptian god of the underworld who guided and ... He was generally depicted as a black jackal-headed man, or as a black jackal. ... Anubis was also seen as the deity of embalming, as well as a god of the dead. .... It was here that Anubis, as 'He Who Counts the Hearts', watched...
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Hades: Greek God of the Underworld, Lord of the Dead, Pluto  The Greeks called him the Unseen One, the Wealthy One, Pluoton, and Dis. But few considered the god Hades lightly enough to call him by his name. While he...
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Fates - Myth Encyclopedia - mythology, Greek, god, names, ancient ...  deity god or goddess destiny future or fate of an individual or thing ... Hesiod called the Fates Clotho ("the spinner"), Lachesis ("the allotter"), and Atropos ("the ... Literary and artistic works often portray the Fates performing these tasks. ... Sometimes the Norns were referred to as the Weird Sisters, from the Norse word wyrd,...
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Anunnaki - Sumerian Gods - Crystalinks  Igigi was a term used to refer to the gods of heaven in Sumerian mythology. ... The seven judges of hell are called the Annunaki, and they set the land aflame ... the children of Anshar and Kishar (Skypivot and Earthpivot, the Celestial poles), .... the abyss of water beneath the earth, and since the gathering place of the dead,...
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HADES - The Underworld of Greek Mythology  In Greek mythology the Domos Haidou (House of Hades) was the land of the ... The ghosts of the unburied were allowed to return to the realm above to visit the ... afterlife and in some versions cast into a cycle of purgatory and reincarnation. .... Adoneus [Haides], lord of the dead below, was in terror and sprang from his...
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Sumerian Gods and Goddesses - Anunnaki - Crystalinks  In Sumerian Mythology the Anunnaki were a pantheon of good and evil gods and ... The Assyrians and Babylonians called it 'Marduk', after their chief god. .... Anu was a sky-god, the god of heaven, lord of constellations, king of gods, spirits and .... and first arrived on Earth probably 450,000 years ago, looking for minerals,...
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Hades - Greek Mythology  Hades was the brother of Zeus and Poseidon. After the overthrow of their father, Cronus, he drew lots with them to share the universe. He drew poorly, which resulted in becoming lord of the underworld and ruler of the dead. ... Thus, Hades also became the god of wealth.
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Hades - Wikipedia  In Greek mythology, Hades the god of the underworld, was a son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. He had three sisters, Demeter, Hestia, and Hera, as well as two brothers, Zeus, the youngest of the three, and Poseidon. ... The Underworld was Hades' eternal domain, meaning he would spend the majority of his time there .
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edith hamilton - mythology - Rogers Heritage High School  Hades the dead, Zeus the heavens, but Olympus is common to all three. Wherever it .... name often given him was "the Lycian," variously explained as meaning Wolf-god, God of. Light, and ...... It is the source of the terrible river which is called hateful, the river Styx. You ...... killed his mother was abhorrent to gods and to men.
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Orpheus in the Underworld (Orphe aux Enfers) | Glam Adelaide  Aug 28, 2012 ... State Opera have found a winning approach to Offenbach's operetta that is sure to win friends ... This work draws on the Orpheus myth, in which his wife Eurydice is taken to Hell and Orpheus goes after her to bring her back, .... Jupiter agrees and insists that he will personally go to Hades to get her, at which...