Chaos (cosmogony)
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In the context of religious cosmogony, Chaos refers to the division of reality outside or in contrast to the ordered cosmos. As such it refers to a state, place, or time beyond the known, familiar, an
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Chaos by Wenceslaus Hollar (1607–1677).
Magnum Chaos, wood-inlay by Giovan Francesco Capoferri at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, based on a design by Lorenzo Lotto
Tartarus
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In Greek mythology, Tartarus is the deep abyss that is used as a dungeon of torment and suffering for the wicked and as the prison for the Titans. Tartarus is the place where, according to Plato's Gor
Chaos (cosmogony)
…unity" or "the gaping space below the Earth on which Earth rests". Passages in Hesiod's Theogony suggest that Chaos was located below Earth but above Tartarus. Primal Chaos was sometimes said to be the true foundation of reality, particularly by philosophers such as Heraclitus. In Hesiod's Theogony, Chaos was…
Persephone supervising Sisyphus in the Underworld, Attic black-figure amphora, c. 530 BC
Henryk Siemiradzki Orfeusz w podziemnym królestwie
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Buddhist hell