ABOUT HEAVEN & HELL

THE FIRST GOD OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY

 

The first god to appear in Greek myth is Chaos (or Kaos), who represented the void. He was shortly thereafter he was joined by Gaia, who both was and represented the Earth. Chaos would give birth to two children, the Nyx (Night} and Erebus (Darkness).

 

Unlike the Olympians or Titans, Tartarus was seen as an element. He was not known as the deity of a pit, but the real pit. He was often described as the god of Abyss. Tartarus was the son of Aether and Hemera who descended from Chaos.

 

In Greek mythology, the primordial deities are the first entities or beings that came into existence. These deities are a group of gods from which all others descend. They most notably include Uranus (Father Sky) and Gaia (Mother Earth), who preceded the Titans, who themselves preceded the Olympians.

 

WHO WAS TARTARUS?

 

Tartarus was both a primordial deity that existed before the Olympians, as well as a name to describe a region of the Underworld. As a god.

 

Tartarus is both a deity and a place in the underworld. In ancient Orphic sources and in the mystery schools, Tartarus is also the unbounded first-existing entity from which the Light and the cosmos are born. Tartarus represented the underworld and place where darkness prevails. There is no light in the underworld and people's souls can't escape the judgment they have to face. Tartarus is also known as the bottomless pit.

 

Unlike Hades which souls that repented of their evil deeds where able to escape. According to the Greek mythology, even good people went to Hades. Just like when good people suffer for the evil deeds of others, they are considered to be in a state of Hell or torment.

 

Orpheus (a Greek hero and the greatest musician) went to Hades and back to restore his dead wife, Eurydice, to the realm. With his singing and playing he charmed the ferryman Charon and the dog Cerberus, guardians of the River Styx. His music and grief so moved Hades, king of the underworld, that Orpheus was allowed to take Eurydice with him back to the world of life and light.

 

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TARTARUS AND HADES

 

Hades was the eldest son of Cronus and Rhea, although the last son regurgitated by his father. Hades encompasses the entire underworld, whereas Tartarus is just one section - specifically, the place reserved for the unjust and wicked. This is where you find Sisyphus forever pushing his boulder up a mountainside and the starved Tantalus forever reaching for food and water that keeps shying away from his fingers.

 

The word Hades in the Bible is used for Sheol, denoting a dark region of the dead. Tartarus, originally denoting an abyss far below Hades and the place of punishment in the lower world, later lost its distinctness and became almost a synonym for Hades.

 

WHO PUT HECATONCHIRES IN TARTARUS?

 

The one-eyed Cyclopes and the 100-handed Hecatonchires were the children of Gaia and Uranus along with the Titans. As soon as the monsters were born, Uranus hid them away in the depths of Tartarus, which made them Tartarus' first prisoners.

 

The Titans, also known as the elder gods, ruled the earth before the Olympians overthew them. ... Most of the Titans fought with Cronus against Zeus and were punished by being banished to Tartarus. During their rule the Titans were associated with the various planets.

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🆕 What Jesus Really Said About Heaven and Hell 🔽 (MAY 8, 2020 1:32 PM EDT)

BY BART D. EHRMAN

 

Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity, and the author or editor of more than thirty books, including the just published Heaven and Hell. He is a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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🆕 Synagogue of Satan Keeping Christianity Under its Spell 🔽

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There are vacuum-sealed vaults underground in the Vatican library containing thousands upon thousands of original manuscripts, scrolls and books from the ancient world that were confiscated and hoarded during a span of over 300 years after Christ.

 

The Holy Roman Catholic Church, mother of all Christian organizations, successfully compiled a formulation of scripture that was taken from original ancient manuscripts to be modified and rewritten prior to their first canonization of scripture that begun at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.