chthonic

The karst lands are so embedded in our cultural sense of place, we’ve got our own map of chthonic legends.

What’s most striking is his vocal versatility: He can go down to chthonic depths when playing a centaur, for instance, yet for Hades, he models his grandiosely arch line readings after Paul Lynde’s.

A notable way that “Stranger Things” Season 3 differentiates itself is that it delivers monsters that are terrestrial rather than extraterrestrial, chthonic creatures that resemble or are composed of dirt, mud, and flowers.

The creek became a reminder that under the “streamlined world of products, results, experiences, reviews” there is a “giant rock whose other lifeforms operate according to an ancient, oozing, almost chthonic logic.”

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.