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Pluto

deity underworld English single tradition · 13

Pluto is described as the king of the fairies in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Merchant's Tale". He is depicted alongside Proserpine as his queen. This portrayal is thought to have influenced later literary depictions of fairy rulers.

↻ synthesized from 13 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Appears in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Merchant's Tale" from the 14th century.

Relationships

co occurs with
Gloriana, Aureola, Chloris, Nabote, Parcae, Aericura, Soranus, Mithrobarzanes, Bellona, Svarog, nameless Slavic chief god, Hestia, Acheron, Charon, Bacchus, Flora, Cupid, Proserpina, Ariadne, Hebe, Aurora, Ganymede, Aquilon, Zéphyr, Dis Pater, Éris, Horkos, Svetovit, Veles, Triglav, Juno, Ceres, Saturn, Vesta, Ops, Oberon, Titania, Queen Mab, Mercury, Taranis, Perun, Mars, Venus, Vulcan, Apollo, Diana, Minerva
consort of
Proserpine, Proserpina, Persephone
aspect of
Hades
syncretized with
Dis Pater, Orcus, Dís, Peckols, Areimanios, Endovelicus
parent of
Erinyes, Lucifera
sibling of
Ceres, Juno, Vesta, Jupiter, Neptune
manifested by
Hades
served by
Cerberus, Charon, Alecton
child of
Saturn, Ops

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Mentioned by

and 6 more

Sources

wikipedia (13)
  1. Fairy Queen
  2. Proserpina
  3. Dis Pater
  4. Nekyia
  5. List of Slavic deities
  6. Vesta (mythology)
  7. Persephone (painting)
  8. Alceste (Lully)
  9. Le Réveil de Flore
  10. Orcus
  11. Triglav (mythology)
  12. Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone, Enna
  13. Saturn (mythology)

Source passages

“In "The Merchant's Tale", by Geoffrey Chaucer, Pluto and Proserpine are described as the king and queen of the fairies.”

#6330 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“The statue of the Rape of Prosepina by Pluto that stands in the Great Garden of Dresden, Germany is also referred to as "Time Ravages Beauty".”

#13080 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“Dis Pater eventually became associated with death and the underworld because mineral wealth such as gems and precious metals came from underground, wherein lies the realm of the dead, i.e. Hades' (Pluto's) domain.”

#13314 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“the two descend to Hades, where they see Pyriphlegethon, Cerberus, the palace of Pluto, Charon, and the rest of the mythological machinery of the Greek underworld”

#20097 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Therefore, sacrifice to your gods an ass so that they become your succour. Those who wish you to make this offering are Jupiter, most important of the gods, Mars himself, his sister Bellona and the son-in law of Ceres (i.e. Pluto).”

#26602 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001