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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_39052" /> == | |||
<p> ( ἔρεβος, darkness), in [[Greek]] mythology, is the infernal region, the subterranean, chaotic night; being represented as.son of [[Chaos]] and Caligo. [[Erebus]] does not seem to be identical with Tartarus. His descendants are the following, by Night: Age, Death, Fate, Abstinence, Dreams, Epiphron, Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos, the three Parcse, Dispute, Evil, Malice, Nemesis, Euphrosyne, Friendship, Sympathy, Styx, and Sleep. </p> | <p> (ἔρεβος, darkness), in [[Greek]] mythology, is the infernal region, the subterranean, chaotic night; being represented as.son of [[Chaos]] and Caligo. [[Erebus]] does not seem to be identical with Tartarus. [[His]] descendants are the following, by Night: Age, Death, Fate, Abstinence, Dreams, Epiphron, Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos, the three Parcse, Dispute, Evil, Malice, Nemesis, Euphrosyne, Friendship, Sympathy, Styx, and Sleep. </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_72710" /> == | |||
<p> A region of utter darkness in the depths of Hades, into which no mortal ever penetrated, the proper abode of [[Pluto]] and his [[Queen]] with their train of attendants, such as the Erinnyes, through which the spirits of the dead must pass on their way to Hades; equivalent to the valley of the shadow of death. </p> | |||
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<ref name="term_39052"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/erebus Erebus from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | <ref name="term_39052"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/erebus Erebus from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref> | ||
<ref name="term_72710"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/erebus Erebus from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | |||
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Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [1]
(ἔρεβος, darkness), in Greek mythology, is the infernal region, the subterranean, chaotic night; being represented as.son of Chaos and Caligo. Erebus does not seem to be identical with Tartarus. His descendants are the following, by Night: Age, Death, Fate, Abstinence, Dreams, Epiphron, Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos, the three Parcse, Dispute, Evil, Malice, Nemesis, Euphrosyne, Friendship, Sympathy, Styx, and Sleep.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
A region of utter darkness in the depths of Hades, into which no mortal ever penetrated, the proper abode of Pluto and his Queen with their train of attendants, such as the Erinnyes, through which the spirits of the dead must pass on their way to Hades; equivalent to the valley of the shadow of death.
