chthonian

• Briefly, Nadja carve out great slabs of sound, throbbing and trudging to melodic resolution with incredible slowness, over an entire side of vinyl at a time; you want to say "tectonic" and "chthonian" but not "glacial" because the fuzz-bass is so warm, rising through your feet, and the layered drones are so disorienting. —  Drowned In Sound // Feed
• Olds's chthonian narratives are often studded with dark incidents like this.
• Everything is hypnagogic, chthonian, and super-celestial.
• "To pass into the rank of the gods" is a phrase which, as here employed, means to ascend into heaven and have a seat with the immortals, instead of being banished, with the souls of common mortals, to the under world In early times the Greek worship was most earnestly directed to that set of deities who resided at the gloomy centre of the earth, and who were called the chthonian gods.66 The hope of immortality first sprung up and was nourished in connection with this worship. —  The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
• It must be strange to die, surrounded by jackals at their chthonian litanies. —  In Mesopotamia

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