He rose, and ruled as god of the underworld.
Some anthropologists link the cult to Aztec underworld gods.
This is an underworld, of course, but there seems to be another underworld resting just beneath it.
Descending here is like descending into the underworld.
Even as the hacking underworld has splintered, new threats are emerging.
"He kept my soul from the underworld, and my life sees the light in full measure."
Told through the eyes of his youngest daughter Dolores, The Hiding Place evokes life in the underworld of 1960s Cardiff.
The ritual, a mixture of Confucian and Taoist customs, is meant to ease a spirit's passage through the underworld.
Death will give them their food like sheep; the underworld is their fate and they will go down into it; their flesh is food for worms; their form is wasted away; the underworld is their resting-place for ever.
It's an underworld filled with gold that a brigade of fallen angels begins to extract with spades and pick axes.
It's first of all a depiction of an underworld, and so it provides Milton with an important Christian representation of a hell.
Then, in the last book of the Republic, Book X, there is, once again, a descent to the underworld, to the world of Hades.
In Chicago the term" justice shop" was commonly the places where justice was bought and r such conditions the underworld was guaranteed political protection.
"and if he has mercy on him, and says, Let him not go down to the underworld, I have given the price for his life:"
I doubt it. When I said that Microsoft was dead, I meant they had, like IBM before them, passed across into this underworld.
He's also my imaginary friend, the way I had when I was a child, and then I brought him back in this new book because he's like Beatrice taking Dante through the underworld.
Virgil alludes to just this passage in Homer when he describes the entrance of a whole crowd of people in to the underworld as "the falling of leaves in the early frost of autumn."
Caught cheating at cards, he ran off to join the army, and then deserted—but not before he connected with the Green Gang, the notorious gangsters who controlled the Shanghai underworld.
