I used to keep an expanded lexicon of chthonic vocabulary, and summation of roles, items and locations at each end of my essay. But aside from the one established at the end of the first and second essay, I will build the lexicon on this separate blogpost that will be updated as a type of fixed reference page.
In the essays I mark words that denote the concept of life in orange, death in black and what can be identified as being used for both in purple. Usually the scene or context or adjective gives the needed information to determine whether it is life or death related. Still, concepts or features of the middle column also fall under the definition of chthonic. If you notice something being colored in red it is simply done for emphasis, such as a phrase that shows up several times.
The chthonic lexicon
| Living world | Both worlds/Liminal | Underworld | |
| Vertical axis | (Earth) surface, terrestrial, hill, sky, ground, up, high, celestial | Cleft | Down, subterranean, deep (within the earth), under, beneath, underfoot, overhead, depth, cave, cavern, hole, yawning chasm, cairn, sunken, (false) bottom, interred, low |
| (Wind) Directions | South (of the Neck), Southron
East |
North (of the Neck)<>Far south
West “Far away”, beyond (the Wall) |
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| Houses, locations, areas | House Tully of Riverrun, House Tyrell of Highgarden, Summer Sea, House Baratheon of King’s Landing, Starfall, Queensgate (formerly known as Snowgate, an underworld name) | roadside, Twins, Fairmarket, Ramsford, Blue Fork, Maidenpool | House Stark of Winterfell, House Dustin, House Mudd, Winterfell, Narrow Sea, Wolfswood, Nightfort, Castle Black, Greyguard, the Wall, Black Gate, Barrowton, The Neck, Moat Cailin, Green Fork, Oldstones, kingswood |
| Buildings or features | Town, city, (crofter’s) village, inn, crowded, rich, filled, bedchamber, hearth, storage, library, curtain wall (?), sept | Tower, castle, hall, stairs, bed, box, window, door, gate, bridge, stable, sickroom, ford, gatehouse, storage, storehouses | Crypts, dungeon, cell, vault, cellar, tomb, grave, graveyard, barrow, cairn, sepulcher, pillars, walls, floor, statue, throne, high seat, empty, hollow, chains, niche, gutter, moat, long low hummock, swords on the wall, murder holes, foundation |
| Construction’s state | Building, flourish, growing | Destroy, destruction, charr(ed), burn(ed), shattered, scattered, tumbled, half-sunk, ruin, crack, brittle, worn away, crumbling, overgrown, washed out, washed away, molested, deserted, smashed, plundered, looted, splintered
sealed, shut |
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| Path | Kingsroad, rising, rolling | Crossing, stairs, bridge, drawbridge, doorway, gate, ford, causeway | Winding, coil, narrow passage, narrowed, pinched, bending, dark journey, rocky way, descending, falling, sliding, slip, across, shut door, close the way, death trap |
| Nature & landscape | Flower fields, orchard, grasslands, harvest, hill, (glass) garden, fertile, undying | Godswood, valley, channel | Wilderness, desolation, bare, vast, bogs, swamp, quicksand, suckholes, forest, woods, grove, frozen (hell), earth (as in soil), loose dirt, mud, boggy soil, impenetrable, muck, leafy ground, silting up, battleground |
| Trees & plants | Redwood, fruit trees, green grass
pollen, seed |
roses, rose petals, leaves, grass, lilly | Sentinel, weirwood, oak, pine, soldier pine, spruce, ironwood, ash, alder, elm, beech, birch, larch, willow, forget-me-nots, wild roses, blue roses, moss, lichen, humus, weeds, brown grass, gorse, bracken, thistle, sedge, blackberry bush
trunk, canopy, root, bark, trunk, tangled, branches, gnarled, thorns |
| Material | Crystal, gold, rich, kindling | Milkglass, wooden, collar of different metals, paper, wax | Stone, rock, granite, pebbles, black basalt, (Valyrian) steel, hard, iron, velvet, silver, wire, rust, hempen rope, salt, blanket |
| Food & Organics | Fruit, melons, peaches, fireplums, summerwine
ripe, juice, sap, suck, fat, hunt, flesh feed, (healthy) appetite, replenish, growing |
Wine, milk, half-empty
pluck, roast Jar, pot |
Salt, sourleaf (mouth), blackberry, soup, scraps
Dwindle, withered, dried, wrinkled, shrunken, curdled, decay, sloughed off skin, loose skin, sagging, thin <> thick, empty, gnawed, rotten, scrawny not eating, puke, spew, spit, bite, hunger boil, butcher, peck, chew, despoil, dissolve (mortal) remains, (broken) bones, guts, gore, corpse, skeletal, carcass, carrion, ghostskin, shell, litter, rubble |
| Animals | Songbirds, stags, falcon, nest, pup, hawk, dragon | Horse, birds, wings, bat, bull, squirrel, red salmon | (two or three) direwolves (at feet), Grey Wind, Ghost, Shaggydog, lone wolf, pack, boar, wood adder, snake, serpent, head of the serpent, moths, crow, raven, beak, swarm, cover, flies, worms, lice-ridden, (feral) dogs, rat, great beast, lizard-lion, warhorse, vulture, weasel, scavenger |
| Intelligent Species | The living, people | Children of the Forest | Others, wights, wildlings, Old Nan’s stories, ghosts, vengeful spirits, demons |
| Seasons | Summer | Spring, fall | Winter |
| Elements | Sun, air, (good) breeze, hot, scalding, hot spring, moist warmth, bath, to bathe, cascade, great fall, lighting a fire | Wind, heat, breathe, water, steam, river, pool, smoke, stream, clouds, rain, bubble | Ice, snow, mist, low clouds, freezing, cold, cool, chill, frost, hoarfrost, pond, well, underground river, gale, draft, gust, autumn rains, swollen, flooding, overflowing, torrent, rising water, wildfire |
| Light & time | Sunlight, day, daytime, bright, airy, rainbow, ruddy, shine, morning, (reading) lamp, wick | Dawn, dusk, evenfall, sunset, full moon, moonlight, glow, torch, beacon, candle, fire, last light, light that brings the dawn | (Dead of) night, dark, darkness, darkly
horned or sickle moon, stars, “no sun and no moon”, stars are strangers gleam, glimmer, glitter 12 maidens |
| Numbers | Numerous, ninety-nine, seven | three, six | Ninety, twelve, dozen, hundred |
| Color | Yellow, orange, auburn hair, blue eyes, Tully coloring, bright colors, gold, shiny | Red, white, milk | Black, ebon, grey, grey-green, moss green, murky green, grey-brown, brown, icy blue, pale, colorless, discolored, dun, somber, stained, faded, doll, grizzled, spotted, splotched |
| Shape | Clear, plain to the eye | Shadow, shade, half-seen, wraith, spirit, oval, twisted, misshapen, armored, stump, shaggy, windblown | |
| Clothing | Naked (as your name day), breeches | Wreath of flowers, garland, flowery crown, flowers in hair | Cloaked, hooded, blanket, shrouded, roughspun rags, leathery, boiled leather, dead men’s armor |
| Consciousness | Awake | Dreaming, dreams, sleeping, visions, drunk, green dream | Dead, nightmares, mad, hallucination, absent, rest, remembers |
| Identity | Name(d), familiar face, gender, familiar, long hair, open, break the seal | Face | Nameless, faceless, unknown, Stranger, unknowable, genderless, forgotten, not recall, only remembered by trees, unseen, alone, lonely, look the same, cut hair, thin hair, bald, not yourself anymore, wolf blood, daughter of the North, hiding, hidden, enemy, lean |
| Limbs, organs and fluids | loins, arms, seed, breast, teat, flesh, skin, marrow | veins, heart, hands, blood, wings, forehead, temples, forehead | scalp; skull, bald head, lower lip, throat, cocked elbow, crossed arms, folded hands, toothless mouth, sourleaf/bloody mouth, chest, feet, heels, neck, dry or black blood |
| Ceremony, religion | Anointed, wedding, marriages, the Faith, wedding cloak, maiden cloak, naming newborn children, absolution | Feast, secret ceremony | Buried, interred, burial, procession, Old Gods, dignity, godless, demon worship |
| Life (passage) | Beginning, Sex, making new life, born, clinging to life, endless, kiss, maiden’s blood, maidenhood, lovemaking, quicken, nine moons, deliver a child, breastfeeding, nursing, playing | Bed of Blood, blood flow, bring forth in blood and pain | The end, stop, death, death sentence, execution, take a man’s life, vanished, bloodstained, farewell, losing someone, loss, lost, gone, stop, absent |
| Health-Manner of death | living are helpless, being well, whole, safe, strong | Sickness, ill, fever, fire in the gut, wound, milk of the poppy, sickbed, coma, rape | Freeze, choke, suffocate, behead, severed/floating head, on a spike, throat (cut), blow, butcher, rip, murder, kill, gangrene, sepsis, gout, game of thrones, drown, taken quickly, mercy <> merciless, tears of Ly, starved, tortured, broken, impaled, fall, kill himself, hanging, disembowled |
| The senses – Seeing | Seeing, Sparkling, everywhere everyone | One-eyed, three-eyed, observatory, (Myrish) lens, runny and clouded eyes, secret | Blind, eyes closed, not able to see, averting eyes, not seeing
watch(ful), stare, peer, lurk unseen, hidden, hiding, disguised, unnoticed |
| The senses – Sound, speech & communication | Hearing, loud, roar, laughter, tinkling, song, sing, jape, crib tales, good news/tidings, noise | Smile, music, breathe, news, message, private language, counsel, letter, errand, chorus, shouts or shouting
Woodharp |
Wordless, (deep) silence, (deep) quiet, mouth closed, hanging notes, swallow (sound), final words, breathless, listening, cut off, cover ears
whisper, susurrus, soft, faint, sigh, rustle, creak, mutter, only with the dead or damned, echo, ring, whicker softly mournful, sob, groan, grievous or dark news, croak, sad trumpet, warhorn |
| The senses – Taste & smell | Tasting, smelling, explosion, burst, sweet, spices, perfume, incense, oils | No longer able to smell, hideous, stink, moist, bitter, stuffy | |
| The senses – Tactility | Brush, stroke, polish, pillow, holding, hug, embrace, close, holding hands | Untouched, scarcely touched
spike of pain Slimy, wet, sodden <> papery dry, crisp |
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| Mobility | Quick, vault, rush, urgent, drive, run, rolling, fiddle | Crossing, climb, scale, fly, soar, dance | Unbending, still, lie, rest, unmoving, unchanged, never change, stiffen, tired
shift, stir, fade, slip, blow shiver, shudder, ripple, tremble, shake, creep, stalk, follow, prowl, paw, lurch, snap, jut, spring from nowhere, limp, slink away, thrust flap, rear drip, spray, fall, slip, dangle, swing, tumble, hang, sweep |
| Age | Babe, child(ren), youth, young, infant | Old, ancient, primal, eternal, forever, always, frail, gouty, ninety, wize, smooth cheeked green lads | |
| Personality | Mercurial, quick, changeable, fierce, easy to love, sweet, quick to laugh | Unchanged, no difference, untouched, unchanged, absolute, rigid, unbending, stubborn, savage, formal, solemn, stern, distant, strange, modest | |
| Mood & feelings | Happy, gleeful, bolsterous, good-humored, horny, wanton, obscene, fine time, jolly, charming, graceful, vulnerable, good ache, glad, gentle | Love, in love | Sad, weep, sorrow, grief, tears, grievous, melancholy, long faced, solemn, thinking, lonely, deserted, despair, anguish, agony
grim, gloomy, brooding, sullen, somber, rueful, frown, disapproving nervous angry, glare, vengeful, furious, cruel disturbed, fear, frightened, afraid, dread, terrified, terror |
| Expressions | A bloody sword is a thing of beauty, facing fears or darkness | Winter is coming, Stark words, this is his/her place, there always must be a Stark at Winterfell, the cup has passed, taking all someone loves, wrong hands, The Others take you, never again, when his time comes, lop the head of the snake | |
| Function or figure | mother, septon, septa, father, King’s Hand, ward, fostered, singers, horn that wakes the sleepers, a son, holy men, maiden, Mother Above | Sword of the Morning, Three men in white cloaks, Lord of the Crossing, Jenny of Oldstones and her prince, Merry Meg
Horned God greenseer, warg, maester messenger master of horse, stableboy twins |
Warden of the North, King in the North, northerner, King-Beyond-the-Wall, kings who are gone
silent sister, Stranger’s handmaiden, Lady Stoneheart, Hangwoman, 12 maidens, widow, washerwomen judge, headsman, executioner, Hammer of Justice outcast, wanderer, ranger, poacher, outlaw Brave Companions, Bloody Mummers storyteller, taleteller, oracle, fool, Florian the Fool Night’s Watch, sword in the darkness, Watcher, shield that guards the realm of men, Kingsguard, knights, lancers, bowmen, captain of the guards stonemason, ironsmith, blacksmith, alchemist grey rat (=maester) |
| Of Interest | Life is unfair, things come cheap, honors, accounting books, figures (numbers) | Promises, vows, swear, pledge, oaths, errands | Curses, damnation, desertion, fair, duty; (king’s) justice; accuse, revenge, vengeance, punishment, paying price for oath breaking, toll, broken or false promises, lies and truth, despoiling; paying respect to the dead; owing, mercy, haunt |
| Swords & arms | Sheath, phallus, a thing of beauty, empty handed, man’s needs, golden sword, wooden sword | Dawn, bloody sword, oathkeeper, pommel | Greatsword Ice, Needle, longsword, sharp, knife, arakh, stiletto, dagger, (archer’s) stake, lance, arrow, noose, hammer, warhammer, whip, archery, spear
blow, swing, single stroke, across a lap or knees, unsheathed, bare steel, point, pointy end, sharp, battle, onslaught forge |
| Fate | Weaving, needle, carve, cut, spell, doom, Old Nan, broken antler, needlework, stitches, woven, runes | ||
| Legendary events | Hammer of the Waters, Red Wedding |
Mythological roles
| Mythological characters or gods | Roles | aSoIaF characters |
| Egypt | ||
| Isis | mother goddess, mother of a king, protector of children
wife of ruler of the underworld, protects the dead and proper burrial, magic. Searched for the body parts of her murdered husband, found all, except his phallus, which she replaced with a magical golden one to birth her king-son |
Catelyn Tully Stark, Lysa Arryn, Cersei Lannister
Catelyn Tully Stark |
| Osiris | Betrayed king who was tricked and murdered and his remains desecrated. Once reassembled, except for his phallus (replaced by a golden one) he became the dead ruler of the underworld | Ned Stark (when dead) |
| Horus | Son of Isis and Osiris, nursing son
Youth, needing protection against illness and assassination King who unites upper and lower Egypt and battles his father’s murderer Set Eye of Horus, or the “all seeing green eye” Falcon head |
Robb Stark and Rickon Stark (to Cat), Tommen (to Cersei), Sweetrobin (to Lysa), Aemon Steelsong and Monster (to Gilly)
Bran Stark (to Cat), Tommen (to Cersei), Sweetrobin (to Lysa) Robb Stark (to Cat), Tommen (?)
Greenseer Bran Stark Sweetrobin, Bran Stark (fly) |
| Set | Envious murderer of Osiris | Petyr Baelish, Joffrey |
| Tem, or Re-Atum | Setting sunrays, creator god who when old wishes to let chaos return | Walder Frey |
| Wepwawet | ‘Opener of the ways’, originally war god, but later conflated with Anubis and chthonic, head of a grey wolf | Hallis Mollen, Robb Stark |
| Greek | ||
| Persephone | Queen of the Underworld, seasons, abducted flower maiden, wife of the ruler of the Underworld, fellow ruler of the Underworld | Lyanna Stark, Catelyn Tully-Stark, Jenny of Oldstones |
| Despoina | horses, animals, dance, conflated with Persephone | Lyanna Stark |
| Demeter | searches and grieves
Fertility goddess of fruit and harvest, of the lovely hair, of the golden sword, of the bath and hot springs, connected to the underworld since fruit and vegetables cannot grow without it and seeds have to be burried in soil. |
Catelyn Tully Stark, Robert Baratheon, Ned Stark
Catelyn Tully Stark |
| Pandora | Temptress who unleashes doom, death and sickness onto humanity // All giving chthonic earth and fertility goddess, half interred, half her body above earth | Lysa Tully Arryn
Catelyn Tully Stark |
| Hades | Living ruler of the Underworld
Abductor |
Ned Stark
Rhaegar Targaryen |
| Dionysus-Iacchus | Lightbringer, secret, protected, Persephone’s son | Jon Snow |
| Dionysus-Bacchus | wine, drunk, fat, shred to pieces | Robert Baratheon |
| Orpheus | Gifted musician, lyre
visited the underworld to take his wife Eurydice back to the world of the living Heretic, shred to pieces, only head remains |
Rhaegar Targaryen
Robert Baratheon Ned Stark, Robert Baratheon |
| Eurydice | Orpheus’ dead wife | Elia Martell |
| Hypnos | God of sleep | Bloodraven |
| Sisyphus | King refused to remain in Hades and tricked his wife into an improper burrial, allowinh him to haunt the living | Ned Stark (in a positive manner) |
| Theseus | Hero with a fondness for young girls, betrays one sister for the other, abductor of Helen, attempted abduction of Persephone | Littlefinger |
| Minthe & Leuke | Alleged mystresses of Hades, water nymphs, spark the jealousy of Persephone | Ashara Dayne, Wylla, fisherman’s daughter |
| Peleiade of Dodona | Oracle priestess who interpretes the rustling of the leaves of a sacred oak at the heart of the Dodona grove (northern Greece) | Osha |
| Pentheus | “Man of sorrows”, king, heretic, shred to pieces, head on a spike | Robert Baratheon, Ned Stark |
| Hermes | messenger, psychopomp | Ned Stark, young Robert Baratheon, Varys, Hallis Mollen |
| Zeus | Storm god, lightning bolt, King of the gods on Mount Olympus | Robert Baratheon, Lord of the Stormlands and King of Crownlands and Westeros |
| Poseidon | God of the sea, rivers, a trident, in older Accadian Greek myth also ruler of the underworld (subaquatic) | Stannis Baratheon, lord of Dragonstone |
| Korybantes | armed protectors, guards | Kingsguard, Arthur Dayne, Oswald Whent, Gerold Hightower, Ned’s guard at ToJ |
| Hera | Queen of the gods, power, jealous, murderous | Cersei Lannister |
| Athena | war, pious, intelligence | Elia Martell |
| Aphrodite | love, beauty | Lyanna Stark |
| Helen of Troy | most beautiful woman, abducted, cause of the War of Troy and downfall of Troy | Lyanna Stark |
| Paris | prince of Troy, judge of beauty, abducts Helen, cause of the War of Troy and downfall of Troy | Rhaegar Targaryen |
| Norse | ||
| Thor | Storm god, warhammer | Robert Baratheon |
| Niddhog | Dragon chewing at the root of Yggdrasil | Visenya Targaryen, Good Queen Alysanne Targaryen, Mad King Aerys Targaryen, Rhaegar Targaryen |
| Four harts Dainn, Dvalinn, Duneyrr, Durathro | Four stags nibbling at the leaves of the crown of Yggdrasil | Robert Baratheon, Stannis Baratheon, Renly Baratheon, Joffrey Baratheon |
| Vedrfölnir | Hawk sitting between the eagle’s eyes, manipulated by the malicious Ratatoskr | Jon Arryn, Lysa Arryn Stark |
| Ratatoskr | Malicioius squirrel who sets the hawk against the dragon with backtalk | Petyr Baelish, Citadel |
| Horned god | fertility, hunt, psychopomp | young Robert Baratheon, Renly Baratheon |
Chthonic locations
| Mythological locations or features | Function | aSoIaF characters |
| Egypt | ||
| Land of Rostau | Rostau= ‘necropolis’. Underworly realm a soul has to journey either along rivers or road in the hope to achieve afterlife like Osiris. Dangerous realm where a dead person can experience a second permanent death if killed by any of the Watchers, demons or guardians of the gateways. Sun god Ra makes the journey each night | Riverlands, Neck, Barrowlands |
| 1st gate | Western gate, where the sun sets, a mountain/hill split in two by a stream, guarded by gods of the mountain that can spring up out of hiding | Whispering Woods |
| 2nd gate | Just a simple leaf for a door with one snake as gatekeeper | Whispering Woods |
| 3rd-11th gate | Required crossing, some walled keep, with gatehouses and murderous demons/snakes, lizards, ancient dead kings, judges,old man leaning on a cane (Re-Atum, the setting sun), and dedicated to one of the 12 maidens of the night (one for each hour) | Moat Cailin, Twins, Maidenpool, Oldstones, Fairmarket |
| Greek | ||
| Cave of Hypnos in Hades | Home of the god of sleep | Bloodraven’s cave |
| Lethe | River/pool of forgetfulness in Hades, dead drink to forget life before death & be allowed to reincarnate, runs along Hypnos’ cave, creates drowsiness with its murmur | Cold black pool of Winterfell’s godswood, underground river in Bloodraven’s cave |
| Phlegethon | Lava stream (river of fire) in Hades. Joins with the Styx | Underground cause of the hot springs at Winterfell |
| Styx | Murky river of hatred, gods vow on Styx and do not break their word. Joins with the Phlegethon. | Three hot pools of Winterfell |
| Oracle of Dodona | Sacred grove in wintry Northern Greece, where priestesses, the Peleiades (‘flock of doves’), interpreted rustling of leaves of sacred oak in heart of the grove. Black dove flew to Dodona and instructed people in human speech to build an oracle there. | Weirwood heart tree in Winterfell’s godswood, heart tree in godswood of King’s Landing (oak). |
| Norse | ||
| Yggdrasil | World tree in Norse myth. It is an evergreen ash tree, whitened by the daily whitewash applied from the Urdarbrunnr | Weirnet, weirwood trees |
| Valhalla | One of Odin’s halls where the selected slain feast and prepare for Ragnarok.The slain are those picked by Valkyries in battle. | Winterfell’s hall and crypts per Theon’s nigthmare |
| Urdarbrunnr | The well/pool/lake of 3 main Norns – past, present and future – determining the fate of men. One Yggdrasil roots ends at Urdarbrunnr. Otherwise known as the weird/wyrd sisters in English tradition. Pour water and lime from the well each day over the world tree – whitewash. Two different sources locate it either in Midgard or Asgard. A hall where the gods gather is built nearby. | Cold, black pool in Winterfell’s godswood, beside the weirwood, in which Ned Stark cleans his greatsword Ice. The pool beside the Three Singers (three tangled weirwood trees) in Highgarden’s godswood. |
| Jötunheimr | Realm of the frost giants | Land North of the Wall, where the giants still live |
| Ginnungagap | The ‘yawning void’ or ‘gaping abyss’; primordial void from which Norse cosmos was born and located in Jötunheimr | The ‘yawning chasm’ in Bloodraven’s cave where the underground river runs through in the darkness. |
| Mimisbrunnr | Well of knowledge, beneath one Yggdrasil root; seeker must make a sacrifice to drink from it. Located in Jötunheimr. | Weirnet connected to weirwood grove at Bloodraven’s cave. |
Chthonic Items
| Mythological items | Function | aSoIaF items |
| Egypt | ||
| Osiris’s golden phallus | Fertility symbol of life being born out of death. | Oathkeeper in Lady Stoneheart’s possession |
| Osiris’s missing phallus | Osiris’s true phallus is eaten and gone by fish, symbolizing true death | Ice missing and destroyed |
| Set’s box = Osiris’s coffin | Coffin custom made to fit Osiris, used to trick Osiris into lying in it, only to be shut inside and murdered. | Lysa’s box with message |
| Greek | ||
| Demeter’s golden blade | Golden sword/sickle used for the first harvest and war against the Titans. | Oathkeeper, Jaime Lannister (?) in Lady Stoneheart’s possession |
| The Eleusinian Mystery | Ritual for the initiated regarding the secret truths of the Persephone-Demeter myth involving items and phases of things shown, things said and things done, which are all unspeakable by punishment of death | Lysa’s box with message |
| Pandora’s box | Jar containing death, ilness, old age, poverty, hunger, war. After being opened humanity suffers all these ills. | Lysa’s box with message |
Hey, The Green Bard here, from w**.org. I just read your tables. I appreciate that you made something like that. It really helps some of us to organize thoughts that may be logical and fit text-based arguments, but are hard to hold onto in your head. That said I am puzzled by the omission of Loki, and also by the fact that Tyrion isn’t anywhere in the right column of your section on the gods / characters. Where do you think each fits?
The Chtonic Cycle is a permanent ongoing project, and thus the lexicon is as of yet incomplete. At westeros.org I made a thread once on Nordic mythology references. In it I gathered rudimentary references to Hel, the “goddess” of the underworld. I identified the Riverlands as the location Hel, and LS as the personified Hel, comparing certain characters featured in the various RL plots to verses of the Poetic Edda featuring underworld characters.
Hel, Odin (and his helpers) and Freyja are chthonic gods. Loki however is a trickster god, though he has some chthonic ties in the children he fathered. He’s just not featured visiting underworld locations. While he’s a shapeshifter (a feature of trickster gods), he doesn’t function as a psychopomp either. In many ways Loki represents the far better the chaos and devestation of nature as main figure during Ragnarok.
As for Tyrion, I have a draft on him for the Ragtag Bands of Misfits. It focuses on the references since his appearance in the books towards Crowley’s tarot card the Fool. On trickster gods I also have a draft, mainly focusing on Varys as the trickster spider.