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Tartarus is the place where, according to Plato's Gorgias (c. 400 BC), souls are judged after death and where the wicked received divine punishment. Tartarus appears in early Greek cosmology, such as in Hesiod's Theogony, where the personified Tartarus is described as one of the earliest beings to exist, alongside Chaos and Gaia (Earth).
The English word hell does not appear in the Greek New Testament; instead one of three words is used: the Greek words Tartarus or Hades, or the Hebrew word Gehinnom. In the Septuagint and New Testament, the authors used the Greek term Hades for the Hebrew Sheol, but often with Jewish rather than Greek concepts in mind.
The 16th century Tyndale and later translators had access to the Greek, but Tyndale translated both Gehenna and Hades as same English word, Hell. The 17th century King James Version of the Bible is the only English translation in modern use to translate Sheol, Hades, and Gehenna by calling them all "Hell."
It was one of the three main divisions of the underworld along with Elysium, where righteous souls were rewarded, and Tartarus, where vicious souls were punished. [2] In his Odyssey, Homer locates the Fields of Asphodel close to the Land of dreams. He further refers to them as the dwelling place of the spirits of men who have abandoned their ...
In some Greek sources Tartarus is another name for the underworld (serving as a metonym for Hades), while in others it is a completely distinct realm separate from the underworld. Hesiod most famously describes Tartarus as being as far beneath the underworld as the earth is beneath the sky. [45]
Tartaruchi (singular: tartaruchus, meaning "holder of Tartarus") are the keepers of Tartarus , according to the 4th century, non-canonical Apocalypse of Paul. The author describes them as using one hand to choke damned souls, and the other using an "iron of three hooks". Temeluchus is the only tartaruchus named in the work. Tartaruchus is ...
The capital of Hell in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Piriawis: The sacred life-giving river of the World of Light in Mandaean cosmology. Pleroma: Abode of the holy aeons in Gnosticism. Scholomance: A legendary school of black magic run by the Devil himself, located in Hermannstadt (now: Sibiu, Romania).
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, a genus of spiders in the family Stiphidiidae.