Meaning of EREBUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'erubus
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| | Definition: | | [n] (Greek mythology) Greek god of darkness who dwelt in the underworld; son of Chaos; brother of Nox; father of Aether and Day |
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| | Definition: | | \Er"e*bus\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?.]
1. (Greek Myth.) A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy
space through which the souls passed to Hades. See
Milton's ``Paradise Lost,'' Book II., line 883.
2. (Greek Myth.) The son of Chaos and brother of {Nox}, who
dwelt in Erebus.
To the infernal deep, with Erebus and tortures vile.
--Shak.
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| | Related Terms: | | Aides, Aidoneus, blackness, Cerberus, Charon, Cora, dark, darkness, darkness visible, dead of night, Despoina, Dis, Dis pater, Egyptian darkness, Hades, Hel, intense darkness, Kore, lightlessness, Loki, Minos, moonlessness, night, obscure, obscure darkness, obscurity, Orcus, Osiris, Persephassa, Persephone, pitch-darkness, pitchy darkness, Pluto, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhadamanthus, Satan, starlessness, sunlessness, swarthiness, tenebrosity, tenebrousness, the palpable obscure, total darkness, velvet darkness |
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