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Tartarus-Prime is a huge prison world-a desolate planet-mostly desserts-that was situated within the small,pocket dimension,known as the Tartarus Dimension. The Tartarus Dimension and the Tartarus Gates are fictional concepts that relate to Sarkhon mythos and owned by Maveric Lion Entertainment Group(Maveric Comics.).The Tartarus Dimension;is a small pocket dimension,where Atlanteans and other races have exiled their unwanted criminals within the penal worlds of Tartarus-Prime,Stygia-Prime,Acheron-Prime and so on.

Tartarus-Prime is a desert like wasteland where the rarely sun never sets, casting an eternal blue-gray light. Few indigenous forms of life have been shown, on Tartarus-Prime either animal or plant, but the is nonetheless a very dangerous place. Tartarus-Prime,has several continents-many sandy deserts,who are often swept severee sand storms.Upon these several cityscapes,that were built mostly by the inhabitants of these dark metropolis’s.The prison wardens,expect the inmated to built these cities and prove themselves worthy of eventual freedom.These prison settlements or prison cities ,often resided over by a warren –who is similar to a city mayor and his prison guardsman-a kind of citywide police force.The warden expects the inmates to learn to build a better society upon this world-thus proving he or she is suited for an early release to the outside world.Many of these cities are known as Archeron City,Stygia City,Skulthus City,

Tartarus-Prime-is one of many such huge penal colonies.Stygia-Prime,Archeron –Prime.Skulthus –Prime,Shayaol City,Some inhabitants-exiles among a prison world of exiles roam freely, able to attack at will, and the inhabitants are violent and angry. According to Atlantean mythology, time has no meaning there, and anyone exiled to Tartarus Prime seem not age,but this is actually something people just say about this world..

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n.
Greek Mythology. The abysmal regions below Hades where the Titans were confined.
An infernal region; hell.
[Latin, from Greek Tartaros.]

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Tartarean Tar•tar'e•an (-târ'ē-ən) adj.

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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: Tartarus


In Greek mythology, the lowest depths of the underworld. It was a region of eternal darkness where the evil were punished after death for having offended the gods. Here Zeus confined the Titans, who were prevented from escaping by hundred-armed giants. Later classical authors sometimes used Tartarus interchangeably with Hades to designate the entire underworld.
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Classical Literature Companion: Tartarus
Tartarus, in Greek myth, an elemental deity, son of Aither (Sky) and Gaia (Earth), and by his mother the father of Typhon. The name also describes a part of the Underworld where the wicked suffer punishment for their misdeeds on earth, especially (in the early poets) those such as Ixion and Tantalus who have committed some outrage against the gods. See HADES.


Columbia Encyclopedia: Tartarus,
in Greek mythology, lowest region of the underworld. The wicked (e.g., Sisyphus, Tantalus, and Ixion) were sent to Tartarus as punishment for their sins.

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Wikipedia: Tartarus
This article is about the deity and the place in Greek mythology. For other uses, see Tartarus (disambiguation).
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Islamic view

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Annwn

Diyu

Duat

Gehenna

Hades

Hel

Jahannam

Limbo

Naraka

Purgatory

Sheol

Tartarus

Yomi

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Devil
Fire and brimstone
Harrowing of Hell
Problem of Hell
Outer darkness

In classic Greek mythology, below Heaven, Earth, and Pontus is Tartarus, or Tartaros (Greek Τάρταρος, deep place). It is either a deep, gloomy place, a pit or abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering that resides within Hades or the entire underworld with Hades being the hellish component. In the Gorgias, Plato (c. 400 BC) wrote that souls were judged after death and those who received punishment were sent to Tartarus. As a place of punishment, it can be considered a hell. The classic Hades, on the other hand, is more similar to Old Testament sheol.

Like other primal entities (such as the earth and time), Tartarus is also a primordial force or deity.


Tartarus in Greek Mythology



The Greek Underworld
Residents:
Persephone
Hades
Minos
Aeacus
Rhadamanthus
Charon
Cerberus

Geography:
Acheron
Cocytus
Tartarus
Lethe
Elysion
Styx
Phlegethon
Asphodel Meadows
Erebus

Famous inmates:
Ixion
Sisyphus
Tantalus
The Titans

Related:
Greek mythology
Greek religion

In Greek mythology, Tartarus is both a deity and a place in the underworld even lower than Hades. In ancient orphic sources and in the mystery schools Tartaros is also the unbounded first-existing "thing" from which the Light and the cosmos is born.

In Hesiod's Theogony, c. 700 BC, the deity Tartarus was the third force to manifest in the yawning void of Chaos.

As for the place, the Greek poet Hesiod asserts that a bronze anvil falling from heaven would fall 9 days before it reached the Earth. The anvil would take nine more days to fall from Earth to Tartarus, making it approximately 4733.22 miles deep. In The Iliad (c. 700), Zeus asserts that Tartarus is "as far beneath Hades as heaven is high above the earth." As a place so far from the sun and so deep in the earth, Tartarus is hemmed in by three layers of night, which surround a bronze wall which in turn encompasses Tartarus. It is a dank and wretched pit engulfed in murky gloom. It is one of the primordial objects which sprung from Chaos, the Abyss. Along with Tartarus, Gaia (Earth), and Eros, emerged into the universe.

While, according to Greek mythology, Hades is the place of the dead, Tartarus also has a number of inhabitants. When Cronus, the ruling Titan, came to power he imprisoned the Cyclopes in Tartarus. Some myths also say he imprisoned the three Hecatonchires (giants with fifty heads and one hundred arms). Zeus released them to aid in his conflict with the Titan giants. The gods of Olympus eventually defeated the Titans. Many, but not all of the Titans, were cast into Tartarus. Cronus, Epimetheus, Metis, Menoetius, and Prometheus are some Titans who were not banished to Tartarus. In Tartarus, prisoners were guarded by the Hecatonchires. Later, when Zeus overcame the monster Typhon, the offspring of Tartarus and Gaia, he threw the monster into the same pit.

Originally, Tartarus was used only to confine dangers to the gods of Olympus. In later mythologies, Tartarus became the place where the punishment fits the crime. For example Sisyphus, who was punished for telling the father of Aegina, a young woman kidnapped by Zeus for one of his sexual gratifications, where she was and who had initially taken her. Zeus considered this an ultimate betrayal and saw to it that Sisyphus was forced to roll a large boulder up a mountainside, but when he reached the crest, it rolled back down, again and again.

Also found there was Ixion, one of the mortals invited to dine with the gods. Ixion began to lust after Zeus' wife, Hera, and began to caress her under the table, but soon ceased at Zeus' warning. Later that night, having given Ixion a place to sleep, Zeus felt the need to test the guests's tolerance and willpower. Constructing a cloud-woman to mirror Hera in appearance, Zeus sent her, known as Nephele, to Ixion's bed. He promptly slept with and impregnanted the false Hera. As his punishment, he was banished to Tartarus to forever roll strapped to a wheel of flames, which represented his burning lust.

Tantalus who was also graciously invited to dine with the gods, felt he should repay them for their kindness and hospitality, but in his pride, decided to see if he could deceive the gods. Tantalus murdered and roasted his son Pelops as a feast for the gods. Demeter, one of the goddesses who preferred to walk with the mortals, graciously accepted the food, but was immediately repulsed when she bit into the left shoulder. The gods all became violently ill and immediately left for Mt. Olympus. As his punishment for such a heinous act, Tantalus was chained to a rock in the middle of a river in Tartarus with a berry bush hanging just out of reach above his head. Cursed with unquenchable thirst and unending hunger, Tantalus constantly tried to reach the water or food, but each time, the water and berries would recede out of his reach for eternity.

According to Plato (c. 400), Rhadamanthus, Aeacus and Minos were the judges of the dead and chose who went to Tartarus. Rhadamanthus judged Asian souls; Aeacus judged European souls and Minos was the deciding vote and judge of the Greek.

Plato also proposes the concept that sinners were cast under the ground to be punished in accordance with their sins the Myth of Er.


Roman Mythology's Tartarus
In Roman mythology, Tartarus is the place where sinners are sent. Virgil describes it in the Aeneid as a gigantic place, surrounded by the flaming river Phlegethon and triple walls to prevent sinners from escaping from it. It is guarded by a hydra with fifty black gaping jaws, which sits at a screeching gate protected by columns of solid adamantine, a substance akin to diamond - so hard that nothing will cut through it. Inside, there is a castle with wide walls, and a tall iron turret. Tisiphone, one of the Erinyes who represents revenge, stands guard sleepless at the top of this turret lashing a whip. There is a pit inside which is said to extend down into the earth twice as far as the distance from the lands of the living to Olympus. At the bottom of this pit lie the Titans, the twin sons of Aloeus and many other sinners. Still more sinners are contained inside Tartarus, with punishments similar to those of Greek myth.


New Testament
The term "Tartarus" is found only once in the Bible, at 2 Peter 2:4: "God did not hold back from punishing the angels that sinned, but, by throwing them into Tartarus, delivered them into pits of dense darkness to be reserved for judgement."

In most Bibles, the word is simply translated as "Hell," even though early Christian writers usually used the term Gehenna, the fiery pit, to mean hell. In addition, this dark place matches the term's traditional meaning, a dark pit in which the supreme god has cast his divine enemies.

The term "Hades" appears in the religious texts of New Testament times as a translation of the Old Testament Sheol.





See also
Hell
Hel
Hades
Gehenna
Sheol

Notes and References
Hesiod, Theogony; Homer, Odyssey, XI, 576 ff; Virgil, Aeneid, VI, 539-627.

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