In early times the Greek worship was most earnestly directed to that set of deities who resided at the gloomy centre of the earth, and who were called the chthonian gods. 66 The hope of immortality first sprung up and was nourished in connection with this worship.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference

Perhaps the smell of blood, dark and chthonian, at the precise moment that the bird screamed, awakened something deep and intrinsic in what remained of Pan's consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference

The pneuma (see below) was a quasi-physical conceptualizing of divine possession, while Georges Roux (Delphes, pp. 110-117) has shown that some kind of symbolic chthonian hole may well have existed under the tripod in the adyton.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Exchange on the Oracle] Reference

Conduit of lotus-scented waters, hard little harpoon for an empress's gastric leviathans, polished root from a chthonian garden, it has, when you hold it against the light, the distant dignity and grave passion of a pale green star.    From Wordnik.com.  [Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas]

Hall, Etruscan Italy 1996, p.70: "In the Near East, eggs were considered symbols of fertility, life-giving power, and, ultimately, resurrection; and the Etruscans' paintings and artifacts suggest that they, too, viewed the egg as a chthonian motif.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

Everything is hypnagogic, chthonian, and super-celestial.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Olds's chthonian narratives are often studded with dark incidents like this.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

It must be strange to die, surrounded by jackals at their chthonian litanies.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Mesopotamia] Reference

It is therefore possible that the ceremony represented in the Vounous enclosure is mainly intended for the chthonian deities whose attribute is the snake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform]] Reference

Thus at Delphi the stratification of cults~shows us, undermost, the prehistoric, chthonian worship of the pre-Achaeans: Gaia (followed by, or identical with, "Themis"?) and the impersonal nymphs are the earliest tenants of the famous chasm and the spring Kassotis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

As will be seen, the ritual performed in the Vounous model is mainly in honour of the chthonian deities, a fact which shows survival of the old Neolithic circular houses and of the ritual which must have been performed inside, or more probably outside, the corridor which quite often surrounded these houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform]] Reference

Briefly, Nadja carve out great slabs of sound, throbbing and trudging to melodic resolution with incredible slowness, over an entire side of vinyl at a time; you want to say "tectonic" and "chthonian" but not "glacial" because the fuzz-bass is so warm, rising through your feet, and the layered drones are so disorienting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drowned In Sound // Feed] Reference