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Orcus
Sign in to saveOrcus 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.
Key facts
- Deity.name
- Orcus
- Deity.type
- Roman
- Deity.deity_of
- God of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths
- Deity.member_of
- the di selecti
- Deity.image
- Bomarzo2013parco21.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Orcus Mouth, a 16th-century folly in the Gardens of Bomarzo
- Deity.other_names
- Dis Pater, Hades (Pluto)
- Deity.abode
- Hades, Underworld
- Deity.gender
- Male
- Deity.Greek_equivalent
- Horkos, Hades
- Deity.Etruscan_equivalent
- Orcus
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- death deity
- Gender
- male
- Spouse
- Nox
- Child
- Fraus
- Image
- Monster in Parco dei Mostri (Bomarzo).jpg
- Residence
- underworld
- Said to be same as
- Pluto
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- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- Commons category
- Tomba dell’Orco (Tarquinia)
- worshipped by
- ancient Roman religion
- native label
- Orcus
- different from
- Orcus
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Origins
- Persistence and later usage
- Ariosto
- Tolkien
- Other modern-era use
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Other sources not cited
- External links
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orcus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.