- a variation of chthonic.
chthonian
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Director Donskoi's cartoon-capitalists are often fun to look at, if impossible to take seriously, and even moviegoers who cannot believe in Marxist fairy tales will feel the chthonian power of Donskoi's images.
From Time Magazine Archive
In earth's womb the old gods stir, Fierce chthonian dieties of old time.
From Eight Harvard Poets by Cummings, E. Estlin
But even in Greece we must remember the gloomy chthonian rites, and the degradations of Orphism mentioned by Plato in the Republic.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.
It must be strange to die, surrounded by jackals at their chthonian litanies.
From In Mesopotamia by Nicoll, Maurice
The chthonian aspect of the hero is further shown by his attribute the snake, and in many cases he appears under that form himself.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
