| You are wrong, aoynne who ha a working knowledge of ancient Greek knows what the word means from its parts and can even spell it. Allo is a common prefix; allopathic (medical), allotropic (physics), allosaurus (paleontology)? etc. Any educated student from a public school would have known this stuff 100 years ago. But nowadays Chthonic is a common word used in anthropology, myth study, witchcraft and shamanism. It means the spiritual forces of the underworld, seduction, death, decay and rebirth. Of course there is none of that icky stuff going on in western civilization.Thanks for an interesting read.
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