Underworld

is rushing out of your body. You start to faint and you can’t feel your body. When you finally faint and all of the pain goes away while your body turns into nothing. This is what the mythical creature Hydra does: He protects the portal to the underworld killing anything that tries to get near it. There are many myths surround the mythical Hydra and I will teach you about them.…

underground, far below Earth. It is a sharp contrast to Heaven, which is traditionally said to be far above Earth, way up in the clouds. We can assume that Hell’s center goes even deeper into the ground, to the darkest, most secluded part of the Underworld. It is supposed to be the place where the very worst offenders are sent, so my description of it makes logical sense. It would also be fair to say that absolutely no light can get into Hell, for it is so far away from the surface of the Earth…

The Mighty Norse shall fall at Raganarok All things living, animals, man, and even the gods shall meet the gentle kiss of death. This is found to be burned into the fabled myths of the mighty Norse gods. They called this event Ragnarok, or twilight of the gods. In this the mighty gods fell to the evil ice giants. All perished including Odin, Thor, and Baldur during the great battle. This twilight of the gods was set forth by the devious actions of Loki and his son Fenrir. All hope was lost,…

being sighted. But his wife had a stalker. Her stalker had lead her to her death (by accident). Orpheus was falling apart, he no longer had a reason to live. Until her had the idea he would go to the underworld to get her back. Because of his talent he played the lyre all the way through the Underworld. Hades allowed his request for his wife, he just could never look back on his way out and she would follow. But if he looked back even a little she would be gone forever. He could not do it, and…

For example, the raven perches on a bust of Pallas, another name for Greek goddess of wisdom Athena. The man asks what the raven’s name is “on the Night’s Plutonian shore”, alluding to another ancient god, the Roman deity Pluto, who guards the underworld. The man also references Jeremiah 8:22, when he asks if there is balm in Gilead. According to the verse, the Balm of Gilead is a medicine that traditionally heals all wounds (Jeremiah 8:22). Used in this sense, the man is asking if there is any…

are a god or goddess for fire, as the creator, sun, and moon as well as having a belief in the heavens and the underworld, since the gods occupied these regions. All of these civilizations also shared a common factor in their belief system by believing in an afterlife. In particular, the Polynesians and the Mayans share a common belief of the afterlife by the soul going to the underworld as well as people sacrificing, most likely to the pantheon of gods and goddesses that they were devoted to.…

Each culture has its own historical and cultural identity that is forged from different aspects like its creation myths of how the world or the culture began. For the Ancient Egyptians their creation myth is detailed in pyramid texts, for Jews and Christians the creation narrative come from the first book in the Bible, Genesis, but for the Ancient Mayans (living in southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras) their creation narrative comes from an ancient text, the Popol Vuh.…

the skies and thunder, and was the ruler over all other gods. Greece also consisted of villages that worshipped the main gods but had their own village gods as well. The Greeks also believed that the soul existed in the afterlife, and went to the underworld to be ruled over by the god Hades. Similar to the pyramids of Egypt, the Greeks constructed tombs decorated to honor the life of the deceased. Geographically located 700 miles apart, the ancient civilizations of Greece an Egypt had…

article “The Reason for Seasons” by Lin Donn, which is about when Hades stole Persephone and took her to the underworld, her mother Demeter became extremely distraught and she did not care to do her job with the crops. She let all the crops die and created an extremely harsh winter. This cause many mortals to die all because Hades decided to trick Persephone into remaining in the underworld. His unintentional consequences made Demeter react in a way that killed many humans and created winter,…

One of the first river valley civilizations found itself nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the Fertile Crescent in now modern day Iraq, and Syria the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived for thousands of years. Despite it being such a great civilization researchers have only recently translating cuneiform when Napoleon found the Rosetta Stone on his conquests. Again war in Iraq and conquest have assisted the discovery of many clay tablets in Iraq. These clay tablets…