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Erebus

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Primordial darkness and a named below in Greek cosmogony. Not Tartarus as the pit of punishment, and not Night as a being dump.

Also known as Erebos

Roman religion

  • Erebus appears in Roman religion.

    Virgil’s Aeneid seats Erebus in underworld and night speech around the katabasis and dark powers. Named below-dark in that Roman epic, not Egyptian Duat and not Christian hell.

    from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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Hellenic religion

  • Erebus appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses underworld speech names Erebus among the dark deep Orpheus enters. A named Erebus place in that poem, not Hades as the same id and not every darkness dump.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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