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What is the lake which is the entrance to the underworld?
Lake Avernus.
Exstinct volcano crater near naples once regarded as the entrance to hell?
Avernus
What has the author Mary Bligh Bond written?
Mary Bligh Bond has written: 'Avernus'
What does Facilis descencus averno noctes atque dies patet atri ianua ditis sed revocare gradum superasque evadre ad auras hoc opus hic labor est by Virgil the Aeneid mean?
The descent to Avernus is easy; black nights and days the door is clear of Dis; superasque degree of escape to the air, but he is recalled, this work, here it is too painful. It's in Latin I think.
Did Rome believe in an afterlife?
The Romans believed that when you died you went to the underworld. Avernus, a crater in the Campi Flegrei volcanic arc in the western suburbs of Naples was the entrance of the underworld. The entrance was through a cave near the lake in this crater (Lake Avernus). Its name was derived from the Greek word for bridless. It was said that it emitted deadly fumes and that birds flying over it would drop dead. Despite this, settlements, villas and vineyards were established on its shore and the lake's personification, the god Avernus was worshipped in lakeside temples. Large baths were built on the eastern shore and Agrippa started using it as a naval base. Later Avernus became the name of the underworld. The manes or di (gods) manes were the deities of the dead. They were also regarded the souls of the dead of the family; that is, the ancestors of the family. The lemures were shades or spirits of the restless or malignant dead. They were the wandering and vengeful spirits of people who were not given proper burial, funeral rites or aware not honoured by the living. They were associated with darkness and its dread. The Lares were good manes. They were tutelary guardian) deities of roads, seaways, agriculture, livestock, towns, cities and the like. They were Lares who were protectors of the neighbourhoods and the crossroads and lares which were protectors of the household.
Entrance to Hades?
In Roman mythology, the entrance to the Underworld located at Avernus, a crater near Cumae, was the route Aeneas used to descend to the realm of the dead.For Hellenes, the deceased entered the underworld by crossing the Acheron, ferried across by Charon (kair'-on), who charged an obolus, a small coin for passage placed in the mouth of the deceased by pious relatives.
What words equal 100 is A equals 1 B equals 2 and so on?
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In classical Mythology there is a dasrk and gloomy cave between heaven and hell What is its name?
In Greek Mythology, the place that most resembles the description of "dark and gloomy cave" is Tartarus.Tartarus is described as a "a deep, gloomy place, a pit, or an abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering that resides beneath the underworld," meaning that Tartarus was not between Heaven and Hell, but rather was the closest Greek analog to the Christian hell.Alternatively, in Roman Mythology, the entrance to the Underworld was through Avernus, a crater in Cumae, Italy.
Information on Hades?
Hades rules the underworld, and rarely goes to Mt. Olympus. He has two brothers, Posiedon and Zeus, and has three sisters, Demeter, Hera, and Hestia. Hades was also called, Plouton, a name which the Romans latinized as Pluto. In Greek Mythology, Hades is the oldest male child of both Cronus and Rhea. Hades and his two brothers defeated the Titans, and claimed rulership over the cosmos. In Roman Mythology, the entrance to the underworld located at Avernus. Pomegranate is his sacred fruit. Cerberus, the three-headed dog, guards the gates of Hades, and prevents from people that crossed river Styx from escaping. Hades is the god of the Underworld dead and fear
Who was king Henry and what did he do?
he was a mean person who lived with mean people in a mean castle on a mean hill in a mean country in a mean continent in a mean world in a mean solar system in a mean galaxy in a mean universe in a mean dimension
What does (.)(.) mean?
you mean what you mean
What does mean mean in statistics?
Mean is the average.
