Netherworld vs Aether - What's the difference?
netherworld | aether |
The place to which one's spirit descends upon death, conceived as below the surface of the earth.
The locale of the spirit world or afterlife, whether deemed to be situated below the world of the living or not.
Specifically, a location of punishment in the afterlife; a hell.
(by extension) A hidden, shadowy, or sinister subculture, such as that of organized crime.
As a noun netherworld
is the place to which one's spirit descends upon death, conceived as below the surface of the earth.As a proper noun aether is
(greek mythology) one of the greek primordial deities, who was the personification of the upper air of the gods his parents of erebus and nyx, and his sister-wife is hemera/dies.netherworld
English
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* nether worldNoun
(en noun)- In some religions, one's soul departs to a netherworld , hell, instead of the heavens.
- While I was astrally projecting, I felt my soul pass through many insubstantial netherworlds .
- The missionary was motivated by a sincere desire to rescue souls from eternal torment in the netherworld .
- Richard had been initiated to the netherworld of dog racing by his father, and knew all the popular greyhound performance enhancing drugs.
