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The Journey into the Underworld

The Journey into the Underworld. What mortals journey into the Underworld and survive?. Acheron The river of woe, sadness, or affliction. Son of Gaea but quenched the thirst of the Titans during the Titan/Olympian war, and Zeus threw him into the underworld to become its first river.

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The Journey into the Underworld

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  1. The Journey into the Underworld What mortals journey into the Underworld and survive?

  2. Acheron The river of woe, sadness, or affliction Son of Gaea but quenched the thirst of the Titans during the Titan/Olympian war, and Zeus threw him into the underworld to become its first river.

  3. Charon the Ferry Operator

  4. Obolus: the coin of payment

  5. Erebus: The Vestibule • This is a place of limbo where all the dead had to pass.

  6. Erebus, Tartarus and the Elysium Fields

  7. The Judges – All sons of Zeus • Aeacus: Judged the Europeans • Former King of Agenia • Mother Agenia • Rhadamanthus Judged the Asia • Brother of Minos; Abodes in Elysium; • Mother Europa • Minos: Judged the difficult cases • Final Decision; King of Crete • Mother Europa

  8. The Soul was a pale reflection of its former self • Which judge of souls lived the same in the underworld as on earth?

  9. Cocytus: The River of Lamentation or wailing • Who will you run • into on this • river?

  10. The Fates • If the thread is not cut then the person is not dead!

  11. The Fate Sisters • Where in the movie Clash of the Titans do you see these women?

  12. The Furies:Pursue sinners on earth but lived in the underworld • Serpents in their hair blood dripping from their eyes!

  13. Nemesis • Spirit of Just Punishment • Goddess of Retribution • Sister to the Fates • Divine arbiter of justice: Just Rewards!

  14. Hecate • Queen of the Dead

  15. The River Styx: Nine Loops that surround the underworld • Styx was the daughter of the • Titans and helped the • Olympians in the war so she • became the river of gods. • If a god swore by her, the oath was irrevocable.

  16. Tartarus: Land of Punishment • Name three Titans you would find in this section.

  17. Cerberus – watchdog at the gates of TartarusThree heads venom dripping from all his mouths with a dragons tail.

  18. Phlegethon: The River of Fire

  19. Sisyphus • He escaped the underworld to return to earth. Recaptured for his trickery, comdemned!

  20. Sisyphus • What is the lesson of this punishment?

  21. Tartarus • Tantalizing – • Forever Hungry • Forever Thirsty

  22. Ixion • Wheel of Fire

  23. Ixion • Showed disrespect for the gods and attempted to win the love of Hera. • Condemned to roll forever • on a wheel • of fire throughout • Tartarus!

  24. The Danaids • Guilty of murdering their husbands on their wedding • night! • Punishment: • fill a barrel with • water from a nearby • stream, but the water • had to be carried • in sieves.

  25. Elysium Fields • The place of eternal happiness. • The Abode of Sleep.

  26. Thanatos Brother of Sleep • "I win greater honor when • the victims are young.“ • [Thanatos to Apollo. • Thanatos the son of Nyx • but no matter how you describe him, he is a creature of bone • chilling darkness. From on high, Helios (the Sun) • never casts his light on Death. (Theogony, line 760)

  27. Hypnos/Somnus • Hypnos goes kindly among the mortals but, his brother, Thanatos has a heart made of pitiless iron. When he takes hold of you, the world of light ceases to be. • Hypnos/Somnus (sleep). • Morpheus: son of sleep and god of dreams.

  28. Lethe – River of Forgetfulness • One cup of water from the river and the soul forgot its past . From there, the soul moved into the Elysium Fields, the enjoyment of the Happy Isles, where soft breezes always blew!

  29. Persephone’s Grove • Black poplars and sterile willows, for nothing truly fruitful could bloom in the underworld. Finally the soul would see the King and Queen of Hades.

  30. Hades and Persephone

  31. Hades, God of the Underworld

  32. Who can you identify from Hades?

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