This article is about the Roman god. For the dwarf planet, see 90482 Orcus. For other uses, see Orcus (disambiguation).
Orcus
God of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths
Member of the Di selecti
Orcus Mouth, a 16th-century folly in the Gardens of Bomarzo.
Other names
Dis Pater, Hades (Pluto)[a]
Abode
Hades, Underworld
Gender
Male
Equivalents
Greek equivalent
Horkos, Hades
Etruscan equivalent
Orcus
Orcus was a god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths in Etruscan and Roman mythology. As with Hades, the name of the god was also used for the underworld itself. Eventually, he was conflated with Dis Pater and Pluto.
A temple to Orcus may once have existed on the Palatine Hill in Rome. It is likely that he was transliterated from the Greek daemon Horkos, the personification of oaths and a son of Eris.[citation needed] Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).
of Eris.[citation needed] The origins of Orcus may have lain in Etruscan religion. The so-called "Tomb of Orcus", an Etruscan site at Tarquinia, is a misnomer...
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NACNVAIASI ΘAMCE LE… Orcus I was built between 470 and 450 BC (perhaps by a man named Leive; see below); a separate hypogeum, Orcus II, was built c. 325...
Sedna and Orcus. The IAU itself has called Quaoar a dwarf planet in a 2022–2023 annual report. More bodies have been proposed, such as Orcus, Salacia and...
to be derived from the Latin word/name Orcus, though Tolkien himself expressed doubt about this. The term orcus is glossed as "orc, þyrs, oððe hel-deofol"...
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Pegasus, the winged horse Two sirens, probably Proserpina, wife of Pluto Orcus with its mouth wide open and on whose upper lip it is inscribed "OGNI PENSIERO...
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"officially" accept as dwarf planets the top three not yet accepted: Sedna, Orcus, and Quaoar. Although the IAU had anticipated Tancredi's recommendations...
eventually equated the Etruscan god Aita and the Roman gods Dis Pater and Orcus with Hades and merged all these figures into Pluto, a Latinisation of Plouton...
gains a very low-level transmutation skill. During the first hike in the Orcus dungeon, Hajime uses his skill to protect his classmates, only to be betrayed...
lies about 120° from that of Pluto. Thus, the phase of Orcus's orbit is opposite to Pluto's: Orcus is at aphelion (most recently in 2019) around when Pluto...
torch lighting her way and a sheaf of grain symbolizing abundance. Abode Orcus, in winter (Roman name for underworld, and for its ruling deity, equivalent...
of Eris, ⯰, but also ⯱), Sedna, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar and Orcus which are in Unicode. All (except Eris, for which the hand of Eris is a...
word ogre is of French origin, originally derived from the Etruscan god Orcus, who fed on human flesh. Its earliest attestation is in Chrétien de Troyes'...
there are many larger bodies that may not be geophysical planets (e.g. Orcus and Salacia). An exoplanet (exoplanet) is a planet outside the Solar System...
The only known depiction of Tuchulcha is a wall painting in the Tomb of Orcus II, in Tarquinia, Italy. There the deity appears in an episode from the...
art of the Tongva Orcus 🝿 U+1F77F An O-R monogram for Orcus, stylised to resemble a skull and an orca's grin Inverted Pluto, from Orcus being styled the...
goddess of personification of treachery and fraud. She was daughter of Orcus and Night (Nyx). She was depicted with a woman's face, the body of a snake...
tomb painting, such as in the Golini Tomb from Orvieto and the tomb of Orcus II from Tarquinia. In these tomb paintings, he is shown with his consort...
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