Then came Gaia ( Earth ), Tartarus ( the cave-like space under the earth ; the later-born Erebus is the darkness in this space ), and Eros ( Sexual Desire-the urge to reproduce, not the emotion of love as is the common misconception ).

The ancient Greek poet Hesiod has in his account of the birth of the gods and creation of the world ( i. e., in his Theogony ) that Chaos begot the primordial deities: Eros, Gaia ( Earth ) and Tartarus, who begot Erebus ( Darkness ) and Nyx ( Night ), and Plato echoes this genealogy in the Timaeus 40e, 41e where the familiar Titan and Olympian gods are sired by Heaven and Earth.

In Greek literature the name Erebus is also used to refer to a region of the Underworld where the dead had to pass immediately after dying, and is sometimes used interchangeably with Tartarus.

* Erebus is also mentioned in The House of Night to be the goddess Nyx's consort, the father of the love god Eros.

The Chorus delivers a brief account of the genealogy of the gods, claiming that the birds are children of Eros and grandchildren of Night and Erebus, thus establishing their claim to divinity ahead of the Olympians.

In Greek mythology, Erebus (), also Erebos (, " deep darkness, shadow "), was often conceived as a primordial deity, representing the personification of darkness ; for instance, Hesiod's Theogony places him as one of the first five beings to come into existence from Chaos.

* Erebus is the highest form of armor for the Heretic class in the MMORPG Battle of the Immortals.

Erebus held the world record for " Largest Haunted House " from 2005-2009, at 4 stories high.

During the Dark Reign storyline, Banshee is among the dead people seen in Erebus gambling for his resurrection when Hercules travels to the Underworld.

Located on Ross Island near Mount Erebus in New Zealand's Ross Dependency territorial claim, it was set up as support to field research and the centre for research into earth sciences, but now conducts research in many fields.

This degree qualified him for employment in the Naval Medical Service: he joined renowned polar explorer Captain James Clark Ross's Antarctic expedition to the South Magnetic Pole after receiving a commission as Assistant-Surgeon on HMS Erebus.

When Hercules ventured into the underworld, he encountered Janet's spirit in Erebus, the place in between life and death where those who feel they still have business in the mortal world linger and gamble for their resurrection.

* Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Crash on Mount Erebus, Antarctica of a DC10 Aircraft operated by Air New Zealand Limited (" The Mahon Inquiry ") ( 1980 – 1981 ) — this commission was appealed to the House of Lords and set new legal standards for the conduct of commissions

Mount Yaanek, with its " sulphurous currents " in the " ultimate climes of the pole ", has been associated with Mount Erebus, a volcano in Antarctica first sighted in 1841, although Yaanek's location is specified as being in " the realms of the boreal pole ", indicating an Arctic location rather than an Antarctic one for the fictional counterpart.

The British Council advised its staff to evacuate, and on 18 April Manning and Reggie left Piraeus for Egypt on the Erebus, the last civilian ship to leave Greece.

She also wrote numerous radio docudramas for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ( CBC ), including a " much-admired radio drama ", Terror and Erebus, in 1965.

It was established that either the flight crew was unaware of, or ignored, the approved route's minimum safe altitude ( MSA ) of 16, 000 ft for the approach to Mount Erebus, and 6, 000 ft in the sector south of Mount Erebus ( and then only when the cloud base was at 7, 000 ft or better ).

In a litany, she is thanked for raising Pound up ( m ' elevasti, a reference to Dante's praise of his beloved Beatrice in the Paradiso ) out of hell ( Erebus ).

They relate Narfi to Erebus, which would make nipt Nera, used in " Helgakviða Hundingsbana I " for a Norn who comes in the night, an appelation derived from the Parcae, who were Erebus ' daughters.

During Hercules's journey to the underworld in the Dark Reign storyline, the Ancient One was seen in Erebus gambling for his resurrection.

During Hercules ' journey to the underworld, Namorita was seen in Erebus gambling for her resurrection.

For example, the Parícutin volcano erupted continuously between 1943-1952, Mount Erebus, Antarctica has produced Strombolian eruptions for at least many decades, and Stromboli itself has been producing Strombolian eruptions for several thousand years.

When Hercules ventures into the underworld, Foster can be seen in Erebus: the place in between life and death where those who feel they still have business in the mortal world ( ranging from Ancient One, Banshee, Baron Heinrich Zemo, Blink, Cobalt Man, Commander Kraken, Cypher, Darkstar, Elvis Presley, Hippolyta, Jackal, Jack of Hearts, Jack O ' Lantern, Namorita, Orka, Puck, Scourge of the Underworld, U-Go Girl, Veranke, and Wasp ) linger and gamble for their resurrection.

" Not Chaos, notThe darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped outBy help of dreams — can breed such fear and aweAs fall upon us often when we lookInto our Minds, into the Mind of Man — My Haunt, and the main region of my song.

Some, such as Cicero who calls them by a Latin name, Tenebrae, or the Darknesses, name them daughters of Erebus and Nyx.

Dante was designed to acquire gas samples from the magma lake inside the inner crater of Mount Erebus in order to understand the chemistry better through the use of the on-board gas chromatograph as well as measuring the temperature inside the volcano and the radioactivity of the materials present in such volcanoes.

Together with certain Noctuidae ( chiefly Calpinae and Catocalinae, such as the genera Ascalapha, Erebus or Thysania ), the Saturniidae thus contain the largest Lepidoptera, and indeed some of the very largest insects alive today.

One such flight, Air New Zealand Flight 901, crashed into Mount Erebus on the eastern shores of McMurdo Sound.

He was involved in several major aircraft accident investigation such as being the chief investigator of the Mount Erebus Disaster, the DC-10 accident in Antarctica in which 257 lives were lost.

According to the Greek oral poet Hesiod's Theogony, Erebus is the offspring of Chaos, and brother to Nyx.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, she and her sisters ( Atropos and Clotho ) are the daughters of Nyx ( Night ) and Erebus.

In Hesiod's Theogony, Aether was the son of Erebus and Nyx, and the brother of Hemera.

Stone Brothers Racing, in conjunction with Australian GT Championship team Erebus Racing later confirmed they would be adapating Mercedes-AMG cars to the new regulations.

Researchers spent more than three months during the 2007-08 field season installing an array of seismometers around Mount Erebus to listen to waves of energy generated by small, controlled blasts from explosives they buried along its flanks and perimeter.

* In James Rollins ' adventure-thriller novel Subterranean, McMurdo Station is the resting / resupplying point of the archeology team before they head to, and into Mount Erebus.

Cockpit voice recorder transcripts from the last minutes of the flight before impact with Mount Erebus indicated that the flight crew believed they were flying over McMurdo Sound, well to the west of Mount Erebus and with the Ross Ice Shelf visible on the horizon, when in reality they were flying directly towards the mountain.

The word ( aithēr ) in Homeric Greek means " pure, fresh air " or " clear sky ", imagined in Greek mythology to be the pure essence where the gods lived and which they breathed, analogous to the air breathed by mortals ( also personified as a deity, Aether, the son of Erebus and Nyx ).

Sylne is the top succubus in Erebus, a title she inherited from the prior top succubus ( whose death Sylne arranged ), and once had an intimate relationship with Veril but they grew apart.

There are also sight-seeing overflights from Australia which fly nonstop over Antarctica and return, although overflights from New Zealand stopped after the fatal crash of Air New Zealand Flight 901 on Mount Erebus in late 1979.

The planet's southernmost active volcano, Erebus (), as well as the dormant volcano Terror (), are situated on the island.

The upper slopes of Mount Erebus are dominated by steeply dipping (~ 30 °) tephritic phonolite lava flows with large scale flow levees.

Rhomb porphyry lavas are known only from three rift areas: The East African Rift ( including Mount Kilimanjaro ), Mount Erebus near the Ross Sea in Antarctica, and the Oslo graben in Norway.

* Mount Terror and Mount Erebus are mentioned in the 1936 novella " At the Mountains of Madness " by H. P. Lovecraft.

Gore Point, Point Le Vesconte, Erebus Bay and Terror Bay are on the west coast.