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In classic mythology, below Uranus (sky), Gaia (earth), and Pontus (sea) is Tartarus, or Tartaros (Greek: Τάρταρος, from τάρταρον "tartar encrusting the sides of casks"). It is a deep, gloomy place, a pit, or an abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering that resides beneath the underworld. In the Gorgias, Plato (c. 400 BC) wrote that souls were judged after death and those who received punishment were sent to Tartarus.
Like other primal entities (such as the earth and time), Tartarus is also a primordial force or deity.
Tartarus was used as a prison for the worst of villians including kronos and the other titans who were thrown in by Zeus.Gaia and Ouranos also threw their own children in to tartarus because they were to ugly. These mishaps included the "hundred-handed-ones",the "cyclops" and the "giants".
In Greek mythology, 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.
The gate of Hell now open
Eternal suffering to come
No mercy to be shown
Tartarus awaits!
Into the abyss we descend
Diabolic afterlife awaits below
Purgatory unleash it's wrath
Tartarus awaits!
By the flames we are reborn
Slaves of the diabolical kingdom
Our souls teared apart, our minds insane
Tartarus we now heed!