Archetype:Underworld Deity

Underworld Deity
Ereshkigal (Mesopotamian Mythology) is the goddess of , the Dead and Queen-Goddess of Kur/Irkalla, the Mesopotamian the Underworld.
Archetype of:	A deity of the underworld.

The character is an underworld deity. Variation of Afterlife Deity with Underworld Lordship. Not to be confused with Hell Deity.

Also Called

• Chthonic Deity
• Gods of the Underworld and the Netherworld
• Netherworld Deity/God/Goddess

Properties

As an archetype an underworld deity, a god/goddess who represents or is associated with the underworld or also known as the netherworld, and sometimes two different places. The also possess unlimited control over life and death. Underworld deities were very common in mythology and feared by most. Especially when one defines as the Anti-Being.

Associated Powers

• Absolute Soul Manipulation
  • Absolute Storage/Soul Absorption/Personal Domain (Underworld deities possess control over all the souls within their realm.)
• Cemetery/Death-Force/Nether/Soul Empowerment
• Abyss Lordship
• Darkness Deity(varies between deities)
  • Darkness Manipulation
    • Darkness Mimicry
    • Personal Darkness
    • Shadow Generation

• Divinity Nullification (in the underworld)
• Divinity/Dark/Demonic Divinity
  • Deity Soul  
  • Divine/Death-Force Aura/Nether Aura-Unnatural Presence/Divine/Demonic/Expanded Presence
  • New/Old/Patron Deity
• Earth Deity (Underground; varies between deities) 
  • Underground Manipulation
    • Burying
    • Disaster Manipulation
      • Earthquake Generation
    • Earth Manipulation
    • Unearth
• Judge of the Dead (Varies)
• Life and Death Manipulation (Limited)
  • Death-Force Generation
  • Death-Force Manipulation (Slightly weaker than a god of death.)
    • Death Aspect Manifestation
    • Necromancy 
      • Reanimation
    • Soul Manipulation 
      • Soul Absorption
      • Soul Banishment
      • Soul Summoning
      • Soul Sealing
    • Spiritual Force Manipulation
      • Phantasm Manipulation 
  • Life-Force Absorption
  • Resurrection 
• Necroscience (All of the souls within the underworld)
  • Death Sense
  • Mediumship
• Nether Embodiment (Varies between deities) 
  • Nether Generation
  • Nether Manipulation
    • Dark Energy Manipulation
    • Decomposition Manipulation
    • Non-Life Essence Manipulation
  • Nether Physiology
• Nigh-Omnipotence (Only for kings and queens in the underworld)
• Soul Reading
• Underworld Embodiment (Varies between deities)
  • Afterlife Traveling/Transport
  • Chthoniscience
  • Environmental Adaptation
  • Underworld Lordship
    • Authority (King/Queen, or Lord/Lady of the underworld)
  • Underworld Manipulation
    • Afterlife Manipulation (Limited to underworld)
      • Afterlife Border
      • Afterlife Marking
      • Afterlife Prevention
    • Environment Manipulation
    • Underworld Beast Manipulation
    • Underworld Path
• Underworld Ruler (Varies)
• Wealth Deity (Varies between deities through hidden wealth from within the earth.)

Associations

• Afterlife Deity
• Death Deity
• Earth Deity (underground)
• Fallen Deity
• Judge of the Dead
• Magic Deity
  • Magic
    • Dark Arts 
    • Death Magic 
    • Necromancy
    • Nether Magic  
    • Underground Magic  
    • Underworld Magic 
• Resurrection Deity (Most resurrection deities travel through the underworld before they come back to life.)
•  Transcendent Physiology
• Underworld Ruler
• Wealth Deity (Hidden wealth from within the earth.)

Flaws/Weaknesses

• Death Inducement (most if not all underworld deities cannot rush death before it's time, unless they are gods of death as well as the underworld.)
• Deity Consumption/Divine Power Absorption/Immunity/Negation/Divine Slayer

Known/Example Characters

Anime/Manga

• Hades (Saint Seiya)

Cartoons/Comics

• Hades (Blood of Zeus)

Folklore/Mythologies

• Mot (Canaanite Mythology)
• Cernunnos (Celtic Mythology)
• Manannán mac Lir (Celtic Mythology)
• Osiris (Egyptian Mythology); Duat
• Sokar (Egyptian Mythology)
• Kalma (Finnish Mythology)
• Serapis (Greco-Egyptian Mythology)
• Erebus/Scotus (Greco-Roman Mythology)
• Hades/Pluto (Greco-Roman Mythology)
• Hecate/Trivia (Greco-Roman Mythology)
• Persephone/Kore/Proserpina (Greco-Roman Mythology)
• Ha-Satan (Pre-Judaism/First-Century Christianity/Christianity)
• Angelos (Greek Mythology)
• Iapteus (Greek Mythology)
• Zagreus (Greek Mythology)
• Yama (Hindu-Buddhist Mythology); hell and the underworld
• Sun goddess of the Earth (Hittite Mythology)
• Izanami (Japanese Mythology); Yomi
• Ereshkigal (Mesopotamian Mythology); Kur/Irkalla
• Nergal (Mesopotamian Mythology); Kur/Irkalla
• Hel (Norse Mythology); Helheim
• Dažbog (Slavic Mythology)

Video Games

• Plutomon (Digimon)
• Ereshikgal (TYPE-MOON)

Gallery

Cernunnos, The Horned God (Celtic Mythology)

Manannán mac Lir (Celtic Mythology)

Plutomon (Digimon) is a God Man digimon that governs the dark area, the digital world's equivalent to the underworld.

Osiris (Egyptian Mythology) God of Life, Death, the Dead, Rebirth, Resurrection, Fertility, Vegetation, Judgement and the Underworld.

Hades and Persephone (Greco-Mythology)

Hecate (Greco-Roman Mythology)

Nyx (Greco-Roman Mythology)

Iapteus, Titan God (Greek Mythology)

Yama (Hindu-Buddhist Mythology)

The fallen Shinto goddess, Izanami no mikoto (Japanese Mythology) became a vengeful deity of Yomi, the Japanese underworld, after being forsaken by her husband, Izanagi.

Nergal (Mesopotamian Mythology)

Hel (Nordic Mythology)

For desiring to make himself like God and to sit among The Congregation of The Gods, Ha-Satan (Pre-Judaism/First-Century Christianity) was judged and condemned to be below all things as The Lord of The Dead in The Underworld which in Old Testament Hebrew is called “Sheol” and in New Testament Greek is called “Hades”.

Ereshikgal (TYPE-MOON) is the goddess of the underworld.