: this has been noticed and mentioned before
oh, thought it might have been
: Coupla modifications: Avernus is actually an Italian lake
: which according to Roman tradition was a gateway to
: the underworld; it's not literally the underworld
: itself.
knew that but it was actually used as a name for the underworld for this reason.
: The Roman king of the underworld and equivalent of the
: Greek Hades was Orcus; Pluto (the Greek Plouton) is
: actually an associated underworld deity who presides
: over all the wealth beneath the Earth (ores and jewels
: and stuff). And there's no Greek or Roman devil; a few
: particularly bad people go to Tartarus, but it's
: adminstrated by the same gods who run the rest of the
: afterlife.
i know there's no devil but it was just a word iused for people who don't know who pluto was. I didn't know about orcus though.
: Not particularly relevant to the Myth connections, but
: still. :-)
i knew some old pedant would correct me ;-p
: --SiliconDream
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