Pounding on the earth from below. Remarking on the earth gods of the Greek pantheon, noted English numismatist C.F. Keary (1882) writes in a footnote in his study on early Indo-European religions, “The chthonic divinity was essentially a god of the regions under the earth; at first dark home of the seed, later on of the still darker home of the dead.” There is a holy connection here between the gods of the harvest and the gods of the dead. In the chthonic realm, there is both the springing root of life and the decaying end to it, and the … Continue reading Premiere: Traverse the Underworld at the Speed of Hermes with Incarceration’s Empiricism