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Who is Erebos in The Odyssey?

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11y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Erebos was used for the dismal, netherworld realm of Haides; it also meant a primal personifcation of dark mists that enveloped the edges of the world, and filled the deep hollows of the earth. It was Nyx that drew a veil of these mists across the skies to make it night.

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