chthonic
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Nor the 19th century poets and cults obsessed with everything chthonic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
That word means “ladies of the nut tree,” and the nymphs were devotees of the goddess Karya, chthonic all-mother Kar in Crete’s oldest pre-Minoan stories.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023
The city is suffused with a form of darkness that locals call tamas, which “is inseparable from the chthonic energy of Shiva, the city’s presiding deity, and the god of creative dissolution,” Taseer writes.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 30, 2019
In Aeschylus’ tragedies, they are chthonic, ambiguous forces.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2017
Nor was it an old city with obscure origins draped in chthonic myth, like Athens or Thebes.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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