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Erebus
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tags: [mythology]
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Definition:a region of utter darkness in the depths of Hades, into which no mortal ever penetrated, the proper abode of Pluto and his Queen with their train of attendants, such as the Erinnyes, through which the spirits of the dead must pass on their way to Hades; equivalent to the valley of the shadow of death.Rev. James Wood. The Nuttall Encyclopaedia (1907)
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"'When you shall have thus besought the ghosts with your prayers, offer them a ram and a black ewe, bending their heads towards Erebus; but yourself turn away from them as though you would make towards the river.
Homer. The Odyssey (Butler translation)
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It had borne all the ships whose names are like jewels flashing in the night of time, from the Golden Hind returning with her round flanks full of treasure, to be visited by the Queen's Highness and thus pass out of the gigantic tale, to the Erebus and Terror, bound on other conquests—and that never returned.
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"Not Erebus itself were dim enough / To hide thee from prevention."
William Shakespeare. Julius Caesar, ii. 1.
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