chthonian

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Shivaree, chthonian, erumpent, tintinnabulation, exonumia, requiescat, deipnosophist, omphaloskepsis, horripilation, deliquesce, apopemptic.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2021

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

It must be strange to die, surrounded by jackals at their chthonian litanies.

From In Mesopotamia by Nicoll, Maurice

In some cases, like Serapis, he carries a modius on his head, and this, like the cup, is an emblem of chthonian gods, and a symbol of the fertility of the soil.

From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by MacCulloch, J. A.

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.