The private detective is militant against injustice, a humorous and ironic explorer of the underworld ; ;

Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.

It is the similarity between Estella's hands and Molly's ( `` The action of her fingers was like the action of knitting '' ) that provides Pip with a vital clue to the real identity of both and establishes a symbolic connection between the underworld of crime and the genteel cruelty of Satis House.

The Greek god Hades is known in Greek mythology as the king of the underworld, a place where souls live after death.

Due to the hero cults, and chthonic underworld deities, the elemental of earth is also associated with the sensual aspects of both life and death in later occultism.

Each of Cerberus ' heads is said to have an appetite only for live meat and thus allow only the spirits of the dead to freely enter the underworld, but allow none to leave.

The genre is most commonly found in Native American cultures where the myths frequently link the final emergence of people from a hole opening to the underworld to stories about their subsequent migrations and eventual settlement in their current homelands.

According to David Leeming, writing in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology, the harrowing of hell is an example of the motif of the hero's descent to the underworld, which is common in many mythologies.

From Plato come their punishments, their rivers of the underworld and the changing from body to body ; as for the plurality they assert in the Intellectual Realm — the Authentic Existent, the Intellectual-Principle, the Second Creator and the Soul — all this is taken over from the Timaeus.

All four of these names are still used in various parts of the Hispanophone world, although cáñamo ironically has the least underworld connotation, and is often used to describe industrial hemp, or legitimate medically-prescribed cannabis.

In 1931, after Woman in the Moon, Lang directed what many film scholars consider to be his masterpiece: M, a disturbing story of a child murderer ( Peter Lorre in his first starring role ) who is hunted down and brought to rough justice by Berlin's criminal underworld.

Regarding Seo Hell in the Old English Gospel of Nicodemus, Michael Bell states that " her vivid personification in a dramatically excellent scene suggests that her gender is more than grammatical, and invites comparison with the Old Norse underworld goddess Hel and the Frau Holle of German folklore, to say nothing of underworld goddesses in other cultures " yet adds that " the possibility that these genders are merely grammatical is strengthened by the fact that an Old Norse version of Nicodemus, possibly translated under English influence, personifies Hell in the neuter ( Old Norse þat helviti ).

Michael Bell says that while Hel " might at first appear to be identical with the well-known pagan goddess of the Norse underworld " as described in chapter 34 of Gylfaginning, " in the combined light of the Old English and Old Norse versions of Nicodemus she casts quite a different a shadow ," and that in Bartholomeus saga postola " she is clearly the queen of the Christian, not pagan, underworld.

In the underworld she is supposed to sit in judgment on souls.

" Davidson adds that " yet this is not the impression given in the account of Hermod's ride to Hel later in Gylfaginning ( 49 )" and points out that here Hel " with authority as ruler of the underworld " and that from her realm " gifts are sent back to Frigg and Fulla by Balder's wife Nanna as from a friendly kingdom.

" Rudolf Simek theorizes that the figure of Hel is " probably a very late personification of the underworld Hel ," and says that " the first kennings using the goddess Hel are found at the end of the 10th and in the 11th centuries.

What they share is the view of the universe as an egg or coconut that is divided between the world of humans ( earth ), the upper world of heavenly gods, and the underworld.

Some, such as Joanne Pearson, believes that this is based on the Mesopotamian myth of Innana's descent into the underworld, though this has not been confirmed.

She is also sometimes associated with cypress, a tree symbolic of death and the underworld, and hence sacred to a number of chthonic deities.

Upon his descent, Johnny meets Señor Diablo, who gives Johnny a tour of the underworld ( which is little more than ruined, deserted cities rather than fire and brimsone ) and reveals that Johnny is a " flusher " or " waste lock ", a creature chosen to concentrate the spiritual byproducts generated by humans into a specific object or point in space, in this case the wall in Johnny's house.

The two of them are sent back to the spirit house from the underworld.

Because this house was the most distant point possible from the visible part of the horoscope, Hellenistic astrologers considered the IC to be the home of the underworld, or Hades.

One night, however, Batman attacks his house during a dinner party, which includes guests from Gotham's criminal underworld, and publicly announces that he intends to bring him down as well.

The narrator begins by putting Redcross and Una ( and the dwarf ) to sleep with a periphrasis that anticipates the basic elements of the subsequent underworld journey Archimago's messenger makes to the house of Morpheus:

The narrator exclaims at the horrific spells that invoke awful underworld powers and call " out of deepe darknesse dred / Legions of Sprights ," one of which Archimago despatches to the house of Morpheus ( 1. 1. 38-39 ).

Having been properly buried, Polyneices ' soul could proceed to the underworld whether or not the dust was removed from his body.

With a second attack, Hades completely annihilates Faust, reducing him to dust as his remains are sucked into the underworld.

From Chaos came Erebus ( place of darkness between the earth and the underworld ) and Nyx ( Night ).

To the underworld, it is known as the " One Thousand Year " darkness of Europe.

Ao is the personification of light and the ordinary world, as opposed to darkness and the underworld.

Joining forces, they broke up the boundless darkness of the underworld ( Po ), where Tanaoa, lord of darkness, and Mutu-hei ( silence ) had lived for eternity.

In the mythology of parts of western Polynesia ( specifically Tonga and Samoa ), Pulotu is the underworld, the world of darkness ( as opposed to the human world of light ).

She ' ol ( or ; Hebrew Šʾôl ), translated as " grave ", " pit ", or " abode of the dead ", is the Old Testament / Hebrew Bible's underworld, a place of darkness to which all the dead go, both the righteous and the unrighteous, regardless of the moral choices made in life, a place of stillness and darkness cut off from God.

The Great Goddess is thought to have been a goddess of the underworld, darkness, the earth, water, war, and possibly even creation itself.

At the same time in the underworld, in the depths of darkness, many spirits conspired, plotting to hinder the Sealing Rite.

As the god of darkness and the underworld, Batara Kala is the sworn enemy of the god of the Moon, Batara Candra and god of the Sun, Batara Surya.

If the underworld is full of sadness and darkness then our upper world is a place of joy and light.

But in The Lovers, there is still some sense of newness, wholesomeness, and hope ; in The Devil they are chained by the neck and partially transformed into creatures of the underworld ; transformed by their taste of the darkness ; by the fruit of the underworld.

The Palo Volador reenacts the descend of the angels into the underworld to battle the forces of darkness.

The yawning gates of Hades were guarded by the monstrous watchdog Cerberus, whose function was to prevent the living from entering the underworld, and the dead from leaving it.

Of the four deities of Empedocles's elements, it is the name of Persephone alone that is taboo — Nestis is a euphemistic cult title — for she was also the terrible Queen of the Dead, whose name was not safe to speak aloud, who was euphemistically named simply as Kore or " the Maiden ", a vestige of her archaic role as the deity ruling the underworld.

Ovid frames the tale within the story of Orpheus, whose failure to retrieve his bride Eurydice from the underworld causes him to forsake the love of women in favor of that of boys.

Soranus was identified with Dis, the Roman god of the underworld, or with Apollo, a Greek god adopted by the Romans, and had a female partner, Feronia, whose sanctuary was located next to his.

Larissa Bonfante and Judith Swaddling have this to say about Charun: " Many scenes feature the two purely Etruscan underworld demons, Vanth and Charu, whose job is not to punish the dead but rather to escort them to their final destination.

Tuchulcha, whose gender is debated among scholars, appears in a depiction of the story of Theseus ( known to the Etruscans as " These ") visiting the underworld.

In Egyptian mythology, Am-heh was a minor god from the underworld, whose name means " devourer of millions ".

For instance, the Tun-teleche ¬ dance included victims whose hearts were removed before they died as a gift to underworld demons.

One such god is Xbalanque, one of the Maya Hero Twins who descended to the underworld, and whose entire body is covered with patches of jaguar skin.

By Han times – as seen in Sima Qian's account in the Shiji – the Yellow Emperor, who as lord of the underworld had been symbolically linked to the Xia, had become a historical ruler whose descendants were thought to have founded the Xia.

Subsequently, his criminal organization included such underworld notables as Meyer Lansky, Jack " Legs " Diamond, Charles " Lucky " Luciano, and Dutch Schultz, whose combined gangs and double-dealing with their own respective bosses subverted the entire late 19th century form of political gangsterism.

Demogorgon, although often ascribed to Greek mythology, is actually attributed to a fourth-century scholar, imagined as the name of a pagan god or demon, associated with the underworld and envisaged as a powerful primordial being, whose very name had been taboo.

The Secular Games of 249 BC had been dedicated to the underworld deities Dis pater and Proserpina, whose underground altar was in the Tarentum.

In 1984, they made the first of 38 radio-plays introducing new characters ; the Baron who thinks of himself as a genius, Vlugge Japie a dodgy underworld geezer whose quickness of hand deceives the eye and Ping Poen a stereotypical Chinaman.

The most famous example of funerary literature is that of the ancient Egyptians, whose Book of the Dead was buried with the deceased to guide him or her through the various trials that would be encountered before being allowed into the underworld.

The first branch tells of how Pwyll, the prince of Dyfed, exchanges places for a year with Arawn, the ruler of Annwn ( the underworld ), defeats Arawn's enemy Hafgan, and on his return encounters Rhiannon, a beautiful maiden whose horse cannot be caught up with.

: Perhaps we may liken drug prohibition to the era of liquor prohibition in America .... which created an underworld whose legacy lingers today.

However, secretly the Noh also acts to maintain the balance of crime and order that ultimately benefits the national economy on both sides of the law and thus targets politicians, businessmen and certain underworld kingpins whose actions threaten this balance.

Metareference can be traced back to traditional asides to the audience in theatrical productions, a feature of dramatic presentation which dates back at least to the time of Aristophanes, whose comedy The Frogs has this dialogue in the underworld:

Nodens ' influence seems very languid in the underworld and does not appear to extend much beyond the Abyss itself ; except perhaps to Ngranek on the isle of Oriab, whose upper slopes are guarded by his night-gaunts.

Tiger Memon ( Pavan Malhotra ) is an underworld don whose office is burnt to cinders during the riots.