\b0 The name refers not only to the god, but also to his home, the world of the dead that was also known as \b \cf4 \ATXht12003 Tartarus\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 . The place was said to be as far beneath the earth as the sky is above it. In his \i Theogony\i0 , Hesiod states that "an anvil, falling from the sky, would take nine days and nine nights to reach the earth on the tenth da
y; it would take the same anvil another nine days and nine nights to reach Tartarus from the earth."