Crossword clues for tartarus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tartarus \Tar"ta*rus\ (t[aum]r"t[.a]*r[u^]s), prop. n. [L., from Gr. Ta`rtaros.] (Class. Myth.) The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in general.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in Homer and older Greek mythology, the sunless abyss below Hades, from Greek Tartaros, of uncertain origin; "prob. a word of imitative origin, suggestive of something frightful" [Klein]. Later in Greek almost synonymous with Hades.
Wikipedia
Tartarus (; Greek: Τάρταρος Tartaros), in ancient Greek mythology, is the deep abyss that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as the prison for the Titans. As far below Hades as the earth is below the heavens, Tartarus is the place where, according to Plato in Gorgias (c. 400 BC), souls were judged after death and where the wicked received divine punishment. Like other primal entities (such as the Earth, Night and Time), Tartarus was also considered to be a primordial force or deity.
Tartarus refers to a deity and place in Greek mythology.
Tartarus may also refer to:
- Tartarus, a Greek New Testament word used for Hell (in Christian belief), derived from the pagan Greek use.
- Tartaros, a Norwegian black metal solo project by Charmand Grimloch aka Joachim Rygg
- Tartarus (spider), a genus of spiders in the family Stiphidiidae
- Tartarus, the Latin name of the river Tartaro-Canalbianco in Italy
- HMS Tartarus, the name of three ships of the Royal Navy and one planned one
- Tartarus (DC Comics), a group of DC comic book supervillains
- Tartarus, a character in the Halo universe
- Tartarus Press, a limited edition publishing house
- Tartaros, a dark guild from Fairy Tail.
In other usage:
- A fictional "hottest point" of the sun in the novel Seven Ancient Wonders
- A fictional planet in the computer game Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
- A fictional planet in the Stargate SG-1 universe
- The artificial person creation and maintenance arcology in Appleseed media
- The name of the tower which is one of the primary locations in the video game Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3
- The name of the landship piloted by Malkuthian colonel Jade Curtiss in the PS2 and 3DS video game Tales of the Abyss
- The location villains are sent to in the cartoon series My Little Pony. The gate is guarded by Cerberus.
Tartarus is a genus of spiders. All four described species are found in caves systems of Western Australia. These are located in the karst area of the Nullarbor Plain. They are likely relict species from a time when the region was much more humid, given the fact that the other members of the family Stiphidiidae in Southern Australia live in forests.
Tartarus is a fictional organization of supervillains in the DC Comics universe. They first appeared in Secret Origins of Super-Villains 80-Page Giant #1 (December 1999).
Tartarus, in comics, may refer to:
- Tartarus (Marvel Comics), a Marvel comic book character
- Tartarus (DC Comics), a group of DC comic book supervillains
Usage examples of "tartarus".
What is this Tartarus Sunspot and what relationship does it bear with the Great Pyramid and its Capstone?
Let memory lead thee back To where waves Morning her fleur-de-lys, Unflushed at the front of the roseate door Unopened yet: never shadow there Of a Tartarus lighted by Dis For souls whose cry is, alack!
Out of the preceding conversation must have originated the following poem, which was found in the common receptacle of these versified contributions: TARTARUS.
As Sisipyla followed, watching her own feet in their sandals going one before the other, she thought about the terrible lion, and its even more terrible mother Echidna, daughter of Ge and Tartarus, half nymph, half speckled snake, who had lived in a cave in Arcadia, from which she rushed hissing out to seize and devour passers-by.
He believed Hades to be the destination of all our mortal race, but conceived it subdivided into a Tartarus for the impious and an Elysium for the righteous.
Tartarus to the bliss and splendors of Elysium by a dramatic resurrection from burial in the black caverns of probation to admission within the illuminated hall or dome of perfection.
He was between two of the rows of vegetation which formed Tartarus, and he was traveling northeastward, toward the Sirenum Mare, the so-called Siren Sea.
It does not surprise the Achaean in the least that Oceanids and the formless spirit in the murk down here in Tartarus speak his form of Greek to one another.
Tartarus, his lungs burn so fiercely, his eyes are watering and hurting so much, his skin and guts feel like they are ready simultaneously to implode and explode from the pressure, the Oceanids monster-woman is carrying him so rib-shattering tightly in her thigh-fingered fist, and his outlook for the future is so fucking dim, that he wishes that he could just die and get it over with.
One of these is a place that folklore has relegated to the Greek Tartarus and, in fact, a giant creature that answers to the name Tityus does reside there.
Tartarus where Tityus regenerates everything the vultures have eaten in a day.
In a minute there is Zeus alone on his side of the Tartarus Pit, casually holding the cable, and the countless mob of gods and goddesses on the other side, powerful god-hands gripped tight on gold.
The hall is silent except for the muted roars and bellows and screams coming up from the open Tartarus Pit.
From time to time he called 'Look out afore, there' to the man in the crosstrees, and once the man hailed the deck 'I think I seen a light go down the side of Tartarus.
The Elysian fields and Tartarus were the two great regions of the Underworld.