The Raven darkness. The use of the raven—the "devil bird"—also suggests this. This devil image is emphasized by the narrator's belief that the raven is "from the Night's Plutonian shore", or a messenger from the afterlife, referring to Pluto, the Roman god of the underworld (also known as Dis Pater in Roman mythology). A direct allusion to Satan also appears: "Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore..." Poe chose a raven as the central symbol in the story because he wanted a "non-reasoning" creature capable of speech. He decided on a raven, which he considered "equally capable of speech"
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