Orcus
Roman god of the underworld / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the Roman god. For the dwarf planet, see 90482 Orcus. For other uses, see Orcus (disambiguation).
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.
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Orcus | |
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God of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths | |
Member of the Di selecti | |
Other names | Dis Pater, Hades (Pluto)[lower-alpha 1] |
Abode | Hades, Underworld |
Gender | Male |
Equivalents | |
Greek equivalent | Horkos, Hades |
Etruscan equivalent | Orcus |
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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]