Don DeLillo's Underworld ( 1997 ) is also set in the Bronx and offers a perspective on the decline of the area from the 1950s onwards.

Cerberus (), or Kerberos, ( Greek form: Κέρβερος, ) in Greek and Roman mythology, is a multi-headed hound ( usually three-headed ) which guards the gates of the Underworld, to prevent those who have crossed the river Styx from ever escaping.

He is first mentioned in “ The Cosmos, Chaos, and the Underworld ” as one of the twelve angels to come “ into being rule over chaos and the ”.

Hel is a ranged mage and is nicknamed the Goddess of the Underworld.

Heaven is often described as a " higher place ", the holiest place, a Paradise, in contrast to Hell or the Underworld or the " low places ", and universally or conditionally accessible by earthly beings according to various standards of divinity, goodness, piety, faith, or other virtues or right beliefs or simply the Will of God.

Wiccans believe that The Horned God, as Lord of Death, is their " comforter and consoler " after death and before reincarnation ; and that he rules the Underworld or Summerland where the souls of the dead reside as they await rebirth.

The Styx (, also meaning " hate " and " detestation ") ( adjectival form: Stygian, ) is a river in Greek mythology that formed the boundary between Earth and the Underworld ( often called Hades which is also the name of this domain's ruler ).

The titular cat is named Pluto after the Roman god of the Underworld.

In the work of another author in late Republican Rome, Virgil writes in the second book of his Georgics, clearly referring to Lucretius, that " Happy is he who has discovered the causes of things and has cast beneath his feet all fears, unavoidable fate, and the din of the devouring Underworld.

Orphée aux enfers ( Orpheus in the Underworld ) is an opéra bouffon ( a form of operetta ), or opéra féerie in its revised version, by Jacques Offenbach.

Hapi, sometimes transliterated as Hapy, is one of the Four sons of Horus in ancient Egyptian religion, depicted in funerary literature as protecting the throne of Osiris in the Underworld.

In myth, there is a stripping aspect in the ancient Sumerian story of the descent of the goddess Inanna into the Underworld ( or Kur ).

Dmitri Shostakovich quoted " La Marseillaise " at some length during the fifth reel of the film score he composed for the 1929 silent movie, The New Babylon ( set during the Paris Commune ), where it is juxtaposed contrapuntally with the famous " Can-can " from Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld.

The Maya civilization believed, Yaaxché, a concept of the central world tree is often depicted as a Ceiba trunk, which connects the planes of the Underworld ( Xibalba ), the terrestrial realm and the skies.

Recent discoveries reconfirm him as an annual life-death-rebirth deity: tablets discovered in 1963 show that Dumuzi was in fact consigned to the Underworld himself, in order to secure Inanna's release, though the recovered final line reveals that he is to revive for six months of each year ( see below ).

Today several versions of the Sumerian death of Dumuzi have been recovered, " Inanna's Descent to the Underworld ", " Dumuzi's dream " and " Dumuzi and the galla ", as well as a tablet separately recounting Dumuzi's death, mourned by holy Inanna, and his noble sister Geštinanna, and even his dog and the lambs and kids in his fold ; Dumuzi himself is weeping at the hard fate in store for him, after he had walked among men, and the cruel galla of the Underworld seize him.

Subsequently, the outside of Lara's mansion in the video game Tomb Raider: Underworld is based on Hatfield House.

" Underworld Zeus " is linked with Demeter by Hesiod.

The scene of death is described in Euripides ' play Alcestis, where Thanatos, the god of death, takes Alcestis to the Underworld.

The 1977 Doctor Who serial ' Underworld ' is loosely based on the story of Jason and the Argonauts.

However, in that tale, the youth is not the girl's betrothed, no religious conflict is present, no actual sucking of blood occurs, and the girl's return from the dead is said to be sanctioned by the gods of the Underworld.

*" Eve ", a new character from the fourth installment in the Underworld Series, Underworld: Awakening.

Euphemus takes the clod with instructions to throw it on the ground beside the entrance to the Underworld at Taenarum by which his descendants in the fourth generation would then rule over Libya.

The fourth section of Don DeLillo's magnum opus, Underworld, is titled Cocksucker Blues.

** Underworld: Awakening, 2012, fourth movie in the series

* Resident Evil: Underworld, the fourth entry in S. D.

The opening episode of the fourth season ( 2001 – 2002 ), " Charmed Again ( Part 1 )", reveals that Phoebe was rescued from the Underworld by her Whitelighter Leo Wyatt ( Brian Krause ) and her boyfriend Cole.

Journeying through the Underworld Entrance, she encounters an animated suit of armor, the guardian of Igunis, the fourth, and strongest, magic sword.

Examples include Resident Evil, Ghost Rider, Planet Terror, Undead, Doomsday, Underworld, Constantine, Priest, Dawn of the Dead, Deep Rising, From Dusk till Dawn, Blade, Legion and End of Days.

Examples include Army of Darkness, Resident Evil, Ghost Rider, Planet Terror, Undead, Doomsday, Underworld, Constantine, Priest, Dawn of the Dead, Deep Rising, From Dusk till Dawn, Blade, Legion and End of Days.

He is also a character in the Image Comics comic book Resident Evil, and in the novels Resident Evil: City of the Dead and Resident Evil: Underworld by S. D. Perry.

The Tyrant Fossil appears only in the novel Resident Evil: Underworld.

First edition cover of Resident Evil: Underworld by S. D. Perry

# The image is only being used in the article about the book ( Resident Evil: Underworld ) for informational and educational purposes.

Resident Evil: Underworld is a novel written by S. D. Perry in 1999.

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After a tumultuous love affair, often deterred due to Cole's frequent struggle between good and evil, and still managing to graduate from college Phoebe ventures into The Underworld to save Cole from his dark side and unwittingly becomes a pawn to the Source of All Evil.

For the remainder of the season, Phoebe plans to marry Cole unaware that he has become the new Source of All Evil and ruler of The Underworld.

Prue and her sisters eventually learn that the demon Belthazor and The Triad work for an even greater evil, The Source of All Evil who is the leader of the demonic realm known as The Underworld.

On December 9, 2004, they performed a show in London at Underworld Cadmen together with Dream Evil.

There, sometimes during the dark of night, the Majesty of the Underworld of Evil silently tramps around that bare circle -- thinking, plotting, and planning against good, and in behalf of wrong.