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EREBUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 734 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EREBUS  , in

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Greek
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mythology, son (according to
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Hesiod, Theog . 123) of
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Chaos, and
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father of
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Aether (upper
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air) and Hemera (
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day) by his
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sister Nyx (
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night) . The word, which signifies darkness, is in
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Homer the gloomy subterranean region through which the departed shades pass into Hades . The entrance to it was in the extreme
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west, on the
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borders of Ocean, in the mythical
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land of the Cimmerians . It is to be distinguished from
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Tartarus, the
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place of
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punishment for the wicked .

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