| Orcus | |
|---|---|
God of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths | |
| Member of the Di selecti | |
 Orcus Mouth, a 16th-century folly in the Gardens of Bomarzo | |
| Other names | Dis Pater, Hades (Pluto)[a] |
| Abode | Hades, Underworld |
| Gender | Male |
| Equivalents | |
| Etruscan | Orcus |
| Greek | Horkos, Hades |
Orcus was a god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths in Etruscan and Roman mythology. As with Hades, the name of the god was also used for the underworld itself. Eventually, he was conflated with Dis Pater and Pluto.
A temple to Orcus may once have existed on the Palatine Hill in Rome. It is likely that he was transliterated from the Greek daemon Horkos, the personification of oaths and a son of Eris.[citation needed]
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