Identifier: grecianromanmyth00dwi (find matches)
Title: Grecian and Roman mythology
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Dwight, M. A. (Mary Ann), 1806-1858 Lewis, Tayler, 1802-1877
Subjects: Mythology, Classical
Publisher: New York Chicago : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ng ofitself a gloom which no mortalcould penetrate. He was alsocalled the subterranean or Sty-gian Jupiter, and plastic artrepresented him like imperialJove, but with gloomy, ratherthan benignant features. HisLatin name was Dis, signifyingwealth, — so called becausewealth comes from the bowelsof the earth ; and because, asCicero observes, all things pro-ceed from the earth, and returnto it again under his direction. He is sometimes represented as having on his head an ancient cornmeasure, the emblem of Earths fertility. At others with a helmet,which renders the wearer invisible, and which is supposed to indicatethe safety that men find in the grave ; or with his garment drawn overhis head to intimate the god concealed. Hades was much renowned among the Egyptians, who had frequentrepresentations of funeral ceremonies. In their representations of him,a radiant crown surrounds the head, and a serpent is twined round hisbody, sometimes accompanied with the signs of the zodiac. According
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HADES OR PLUTO. 157 to some mycologists, Hades, as well as many other gods of the Egyp-tians, was originally worshipped as the sun; and Zeus, Poseidon, andHades are considered as the symbols of one solar year, diversifiedaccording to the changes of the seasons. Tartaros, or Erebos, was the abode of night, where, at the remotestboundary of the Earth, the sun was supposed to sink into the sea.There, too, was the mansion of Hades, beneath which, in a dark prison,the Titans bemoaned their fate. The boundary of the earth was sup-posed to be the Atlantic Ocean; and there, near the abode of Night,fiction also placed those blissful islands where reigns everlasting spring.There, also, in the same dusky horizon of the west, the sky rested uponthe shoulders of Atlas, and there the golden fruit was guarded by theHesperides. In Greece, the entrance to Hades dominions was supposed to benear the promontory of Tsenarus ; and farther west, in Thesprotia, twostreams took their rise, which we again find

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