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Meaning of "chthonic"
Chthonic is an adjective used to describe something related to the underworld or subterranean world in Greek mythology
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- Dwelling within or under the earth.
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Dark animals were typically offered to chthonic deities.
Where the chthonic monster waits.
Sacrifices were also made to chthonic gods.
A chthonic deity who was lord of drums.
Often considered an chthonic or lunar goddess.
Chthonic is the technical adjective for things of the underworld.
Often considered a chthonic or lunar goddess.
Black was the appropriate colour for offerings to chthonic deities.
Between the gods and chthonic powers or giants.
Other deities may have had a secondary or disputed chthonic aspect.
The chthonic monsters.
Resignification of octopuses and squids as chthonic allies is excellent news.
The bull was a chthonic animal associated with fertility and vegetation.
He was thus a chthonic god.
The chthonic and infernal nature penetrates the virile principle and lowers it to a phallic level.
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Hades is phased out in later groupings due to his chthonic associations.
Two crabs appear in the lower chthonic hemisphere which represents the body.
All these elements betoken the rites owed to a chthonic deity.
Chthonic deities were gods associated with the Underworld.
Deep into the sunken palace where the chthonic monster waits.
Chthonic became quite popular in the rock scene in Taiwan.
This is especially true in the case of chthonic deities and mother goddesses.
Libations poured onto the earth are meant for the dead and for the chthonic gods.
This chthonic quality is found in dangerous concentration in the Germanic peoples.
Defending the Olympian order against chthonic monsters.
Chthonic are known for Asian instrumentation.
It has been assumed that it was a cult of a chthonic Aphrodite or Artemis.
Kui was a chthonic demigoddess and the wife of Tuputupuwhenua in Māori mythology.
In some forms Hades appears with his chthonic horses.
Chthonic announce new record Battlefields of Asura.
But he rescued Amymone from a chthonic satyr that was about to rape her.
The band themselves sometimes use the term Chthonic Musick.
ChthoniC is a band in Taiwan.
The epithets of Persephone reveal her double function as chthonic and vegetation goddess.
A group of nine chthonic beings of the underworld, they were associated with regeneration.
The Goddess in her chthonic.
Some chthonic cults practised ritual sacrifice, which often happened at night time.
Also published under the title Chthonic Gnosis.
Grottos, caverns and chthonic labyrinths always engendered respectful fascination among the cultures of primitive man.
Relentless Recurrence was also the first Chthonic album written entirely in Taiwanese.
The female figure in the picture represents her dark, chthonic side.
He was probably at this period a chthonic deity, connected with earthquakes.
Because of her underworld roles, he beast Hecate is generally classed as chthonic.
The religious practices centered on chthonic locales, then, where a central deity held sway.
Its religious functions included the practice of animal sacrifices, often to Chthonic deities.
As a primeval chthonic deity, Tatenen was identified with creation.
Sulphur, being associated with volcanoes, becomes the symbol of chthonic depths and of ceaseless transformation.
The chthonic night-time sacrifice of a dog to Enyalios became assimilated to the cult of Ares.
Dione, An early chthonic goddess of prophesy.
Olympian Demeter was their leader, but for the most part these were non-Olympian chthonic gods.
