Tartar (mythology)

See also: Tartar

In the Greek Mythology, the Tartar (in Greek old Τάρταρος / Tártaros ) is a place of the Enfers.

Myth

Paramount divinity

In antiquated mythology, Tartar paramount divinity is a , resulting from Chaos. He personifies the Tartar, the place low of the underground world: the distance from the Tartar to the ground was equal to that which separates the skies from the ground according to the Old ones. It supports moreover the bases of the grounds and the seas.

According to the versions, it passes for the father of Typhon and Échidna (conceived with Gaïa, Earth), to see Hécate.

Place of punishment

In the later myths, the Tartar passes for a Prison located in the Hells, protected by triple rampart from Airain whose the Phlégéthon runs, and buckled around by an iron door manufactured by Poséidon. Those which sinned during their life (in particular towards the gods) are condemned to undergo eternal punishments there.

Y are in particular locked up Tantale, Sisyphus, Ixion, Tityos, the Danaïdes, the Titans and the Aloades. The Hécatonchires are the guards, jointly with the Érinyes .

At the time antiquated, there did not exist in the Greek religion of concept of last judgment. Each one wandered after its death in the Hells, independently of its crimes or its merits. The Tartar (like place of punishment) and his opposite, the Champs Elysées, thus appeared more tardily.

Sources

• (I, 1,2; II, 1,2).

• (v. 116 and suiv.)
• (VIII, 15).
• (CLII).

See too

Related articles

• paramount Greek Divinities

• Greek Hells
• Champs Elysées