"Fail in tartarara." This expression is often found in fiction. You can also hear it in colloquial speech. What is its meaning and what is its origin? This will be discussed in detail in the article.
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The following definitions of the specified expression are given there:
- The phrase "fail in tartarara" is colloquial and has an expressive coloring. Its meaning is “to perish”, “to perish, to“ disappear ”. Example: “We all risk falling into tartarars, as was the case with Sodom and Gomorrah.”
- There is another version of the expression: “So that you (them, you, and so on) fall into tartarara.” It represents a colloquial, rude, swearing desire for trouble, trouble, getting into such a distant place from which they do not return. Example: "That you, the devil, fall into tartarara and accept eternal torment there."
Mythological aspect
So what are these “tartarars”? This word denotes the underworld of the dead. This is the place where the souls of sinners settle after death. There they endure eternal torment. That is, "tartarara" is associated with hell, the underworld.
The roots of the studied token must be sought in ancient Greek mythology. It comes from the Greek noun Τάρταρος, meaning "tartar, " that is, hell, hell.
By it is meant the abyss that is under the underworld, hell. This kingdom belongs to the lord of the underworld, the brother of Zeus and Poseidon, Hades. It contained the shadows of the dead, that is, their souls. As for Tartarus himself, this is the place where the titans were dropped. This happened after Zeus defeated them led by Kronos. There he also imprisoned the Cyclops. All of them were guarded by the children of Uranus, Hekatonheyry - hundred-armed giant.
Tartarus was a gloomy abyss, removed from the surface of the earth as far as the sky is far from it. As Hesiod wrote, it would have taken nine days for the copper anvil to be brought down from the surface of the earth to reach Tartarus. He had copper walls and gates, and surrounded by a triple layer of darkness, which God Ereb sent.
Ancient Greek authors believed that Tartarus was located in the North. Later they began to consider it as the most remote place in Hades. In the period of late antiquity, this place became associated with a space of darkness and intense cold.
In the Middle Ages the so-called most remote and abandoned corners of the earth. Later, due to the similarity of names, in European cartography, Tartar began to be associated with northern Asia, which was called Tartaria.
