90482 Orcus objects with a similar size and orbit to that of Pluto are named after underworld deities. Accordingly, the discoverers suggested naming the object after "Orcus", the Etruscan god of the underworld and punisher of broken oaths. He was portrayed in paintings in Etruscan tombs as a hairy, bearded giant. The name was also a private reference to the homonymous Orcas Island, where Brown's wife Diane had lived as a child and that they visit frequently. On March 30, 2005, Orcus's companion, Vanth, was named after a winged female demon of the Etruscan underworld. She could be present at the moment
Sinmara Orcus, a god of the underworld in Roman mythology, and that Hel is blue or half blue and half light, like the Roman goddess Proserpina, whom Saxo equates to Hel in his "Gesta Danorum". Falk further notes that Sinmara is referred to as "aurglasis Eirr", which he translates as "the goddess of the gold ring", and compares Hel's being called "Gjallar sunnu gátt" "wearer of the necklace" in stanza 9 of the poem "Forspjallsljóð". Björn Olsen associates the kenning with "veðurglasir", a name of Yggdrasill in stanza 24 of the same poem, and translates "aurglasir" as a name for the