underworld deity

This imagery is associated with underworld deities and rites of fire starting.

Hence, the sekhem was often used as a symbol of the underworld deity.

It seems likely that they had underworld deities.

An underworld deity of great importance in Rome.

Anubis was said to have given way to Osiris out of respect, and, as an underworld deity.

Since baboons were considered to be the dead, Babi was viewed as an underworld deity.

He initially seems to be a fierce underworld deity, but Shezmu was quite helpful to the dead.

The Snake Goddess was another of the Minoans' underworld deities.

When opened, the pit served as a cache for offerings to underworld deities, particularly Ceres, goddess of the fruitful earth.

The classical underworld deities became casually interchangeable with Satan as an embodiment of Hell.

Further, Rybakov identifies the underworld deity as Veles.

Hesychius identifies Pluto with Eubouleus, but other ancient sources distinguish between these two underworld deities.

IAU guidelines dictate that all plutinos must, like Pluto, be named for underworld deities.

Equestrian events were also associated with underworld deities in other rituals and festivals in the Campus Martius.

When discovered, either by telescopic observation or the New Horizons flyby in 2015, Plutonian surface features are to be named after underworld deities.

This is a representation of the bicephalic deity Pawatun (God N), a prominent underworld deity.

Under the guidelines of the International Astronomical Union's naming conventions, objects with a similar size and orbit to that of Pluto are named after underworld deities.

In cultures that practiced the rite of Charon's obol, the infernal ferryman who requires payment is one of a number of underworld deities associated with wealth.

Due to the hero cults, and chthonic underworld deities, the elemental of earth is also associated with the sensual aspects of both life and death in later occultism.

Hellenic polytheists worship the ancient Greek Gods, including the Olympians, nature divinities, underworld deities (Chthonic Gods) and heroes.

As both an underworld deity, and subservient to Osiris, Aken became known as Cherti (also spelt Kherty), meaning (one who is) subservient.

The Aztecs believed in the same legend, only their name for the great teacher was Quetzalcoatl, the underworld deity known as Tezcatilpoca, a name which translates to 'smoking mirror.'"

The goddess Tlazoteotl, known as the "Eater of Filth" or "Goddess of Excrements" is an underworld deity of life and death, transforming pain and suffering into gold.

Originally a chthonic god of riches, fertile agricultural land, and underground mineral wealth, he was later commonly equated with the Roman deities Pluto and Orcus, becoming an underworld deity.

A pair of underworld deities, Axiokersos and Axiokersa, are identified to Hades and Persephone, but do not appear to be part of the original group of pre-Hellenic deities.