#chthonian

[panolepsy]

Chthonic & Chthonian Theoi

What is the difference, why does it matter?

Many people — including me up until maybe 2-4 months ago did not know there was a difference in the words chthonic and chthonian.

Let me first explain why it is so important to separate the words and meanings.

We need to first recognize that this does not only play part in the religion, but it is also an ancient language.

Switching the words or meanings, or even just ignoring them all together is harmful of the language and ancient culture.

Now we will get into CHTHONIC

Many people, which included me — thought this word meant underworld gods. Which makes sense since when you only search up the meaning of the word, most people only look at the ai overview which concludes that this word means underworld.

This is incorrect, looking into the Oxford handbook we can see that the word actually has ties into the country, it is relating to agricultural theoi.

Χθών .. khthṓn .. khthonic .. chthonic

Now, chthonian. It’s the same issue, many people don’t know I didn’t know and so on.

This is what people think chthonic means, it means indigenous to the underworld.

χθόνιος .. khthónĭos .. khthonian .. chthonian

Further add onto why this matters

When studying scholarly books like Ancient Greek Cults by Jennifer Larson, Sharing with the Gods Aparchai and Dekatai in Ancient Greece by Theodora Suk Fong Jim, The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion Esther Eidinow and Julia Kindt, and MANY MANY other books, we can see chthonian used to speak of the underworld gods.

In the same books + Smoke Signals for the Gods Ancient Greek Sacrifice from the Archaic through Roman Periods F. S. Naiden we can see chthonic used in the context of agricultural gods.

Though I do want to add that these titles do not have a set deity list of course, for example Poseidon has a CHTHONIC epithet during a festival to protect sea side plants… but he isn’t JUST a chthonic god, the same way hades isn’t just a CHTHONIAN god, but his CHTHONIC counterpart Plouton existed and that’s what was worshipped rather then hades. Some gods like the furies were ONLY CHTHONIAN, and some gods like Gaia were ONLY CHTHONIC.

This all is just to help make sense of scholarly text… and not spread misinfo.

[elliesmutwriter]

Monster Fucker Manual

#3 Chthonian

An eldritch being, incredibly difficult to come across, but if you do somehow manage to walk the planes of existence they call their home, you will quickly come to regret your decision. These worm like beings make their homes amongst vast deserts and will know when you trespass long before you ever see them. They burrow through the sand much faster than any researcher we sent could run and either burst out of the ground or create a massive quicksand hole below them. Either method will lead to you being swallowed hole, the rows of teeth tearing off your clothes as you fall down. As you fall into a specific stomach, the chemicals will break down your will and flood your body with hormones until you are a pliant toy ready for use.

Upon reaching this state you will be released from the mouth, ready for its tentacles to slip inside of you, feeling out which of your holes are most pleasant for it to fuck. It will experiment with your body, seeing how deep the tentacles can go or how many can fit in one hole all whilst you are in a haze where you can register everything happening to you but completely unable to do anything about it.

Once it is pleased with your body it will bring you to the rest of its harem where it will find a task for you. Some are just used for sexual pleasure, whilst some who are particularly broken are sent back into the world to corrupt more would be harem members and bring them to the Chthonian's lair. Those with particularly stretchy holes are often filled with eggs and used as incubators. Those it has sensed have the desire to nourish are pumped full of hormones until their breasts grow larger than what should be possible, with the newborns latching on and drinking from them.

Escape is impossible. You have been warned.

Monster Fucker Manual

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[fhtagn-and-tentacles]

SPAWN OF CHTHONIAN

by Jakub Bazyluk

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What if hungry?

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As requested by @meb79 .... Henry as Hades - enjoy 😁🏛

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[angel-of-genders]

Chthonicdeity

A gender related to being a chthonic (underworld) deity. For deitykin only. 

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