| In all their dark glamor, they evoke the global workings of industry, awful and chthonic. |
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| It is here that all the real drama of the Great Feud takes place, as in the chthonic struggles of old. |
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| Seeking deeper inspiration, the erudite Masson turned to the somber, chthonic Greek myths. |
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| We have some record of arguments used to maintain the coherence of chthonic peoples, faced with varying forms of western proselytism. |
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| If I said I knew Edinburgh, I meant its chthonic parts, the wynds and stairs that deliver you quickly where you're going. |
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| Since both Hecate and dogs were commonly thought of as chthonic, the association of both with magical herbs and roots is logical. |
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| The totality of chthonic tradition could thus serve the goal of human dignity as effectively as a western code of human rights. |
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| Nevertheless the idea has tapped into a latent, even chthonic passion for spelling words and 100,000 children applied to take part. |
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| Also this is before the Greek colonization of reaching back to the sanctuary chthonic deities trapped there. |
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| Thus, all the rider-shaped whistles are not chthonic symbols every cuckoo is not a sign of spring. |
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| Rather, it is a kind of mythical or ur-nature, one associated with a primordial existence, chthonic gods and the enigmatic and destructive figure of the sphinx. |
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| The books are simply books, entertaining fantasies, not a gateway into the Dionysian worship of the chthonic Great Mother and not a paragon of moral virtue either. |
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| Furies, Greek Erinyes, also called Eumenides, in Greco-Roman mythology, the chthonic goddesses of vengeance. |
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| In temperament and style DeLillo is Apollonian, a secret sharer with his technocrats and obsessives, whereas Pynchon is chthonic, in touch with darker gods. |
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| It is a recognition of the divine source and ownership of the harvest and the means by which man is reconciled with the vegetational, chthonic powers from whom he takes it. |
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| The prominent deity Eshmun of Sidon developed from a chthonic nature for agriculture into a god of health and healing. |
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| Both Hellenistic and Oriental influences are discernible in the religious background, alongside chthonic and solar motifs. |
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| Early ethnographers treated Hinenuitepo as a threatening, chthonic death-deity who had lost any claim to benign femininity. |
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| This chthonic couple seem to bear the superior ethical power and also the power of creation and destruction. |
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| In some cases these spirits are divided into celestial or chthonic classes, and belief in the existence of all these beings does not imply that all are worshipped. |
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| Seth also has chthonic aspects, which might have been regarded as a good omen for those excavating the gallery, although this is by no means certain. |
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| Chthonic rumbles marry together distinct, unalike elements to commence new, hybrid stories. |
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