Pluto (mythology) the underworld. "Plūtō" (; genitive "Plūtōnis") is the Latinized form of the Greek "Plouton". Pluto's Roman equivalent is Dis Pater, whose name is most often taken to mean "Rich Father" and is perhaps a direct translation of "Plouton." Pluto was also identified with the obscure Roman Orcus, like Hades the name of both a god of the underworld and the underworld as a place. The borrowed Greek name "Pluto" is sometimes used for the ruler of the dead in Latin literature, leading some mythology handbooks to assert misleadingly that Pluto was the Roman counterpart of Hades. "Pluto" ("Pluton" in French
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