Achlyswas the personified spirit of the death-mist – the clouding of the eyes preceding death. She may also have been the goddess of deadly poisons. Akhlys was sometimes numbered amongst the Keres. She is one of the figures depicted on Heracles’ shield, perhaps also representing the personification of sorrow and grief.
Tartaros was the primordial god of the stormy pit of Tartaros that lies beneath the foundations of the earth. He was the body of the pit itself rather than an anthropomorphic deity. The universe was envisaged as great sphere with the solid dome of the sky forming the upper half and the inverse dome of the pit of Tartaros the lower. Tartaros was secured with a surrounding wall of bronze set with a pair of gates guarded by the hundred-handed Hekatonkheires and was the gloomy, storm-wracked prison of the Titanes