Sublime

Lower World (Underworld) Below the Middle World is an inner earth, an underworld that truly has nothing to do with the Christian concept of hell, but is a place of the ancestors and primal beings. This Lower World is a place of testing and facing fear. Beings of…

but the Gods On man bestow not all their gifts at once;

Then he would leave for the underworld, where I could never go, for gods are the opposite of death.

The ancient Greek cosmos encompassed both the dayworld and the underworld, the telluric (“upper earth”) and chthonic (“under earth”). In accord with this vision, the divine pantheon was separated into gods that belonged to the deep earth, cthonioi, such as Persephone, Hades, and Hecate, and Olympians such as Athena, Apollo, and Hera, who were of