Pluto and subterranean wealth

Meaning

Pluto is the richest ruler because the earth receives and renews the treasures supplied by the other regions. The other powers become tributaries, tributaires, to his subterranean realm. Nuysement presents this as what the poets imagined in fable; he is interested in the earth’s concentrating and receiving office, not in settling competing stories about the gods’ birth order. The richness figure therefore assists the argument for seeking embodied powers in earth. It should not be read as a literal divine geology or as an assertion that every mention of Pluto in the book names the same material.