0 relating to or living in the underworld (= the place in ancient stories where the spirits of the dead go):
In older Greek and Hellenistic cults, the snake was worshipped as a symbol of the chthonic deity.
In the Odyssey, gulls are associated with Calypso and are chthonic birds.
He writes about an Ireland that is primal, menacing, chthonic.
In their unconscious life they were worshipping Wotan, the chthonic god of war and violence.
