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Greek Underworld

Greek Underworld. Enter the Abode of the Dead. Acheron. The river of woe, sadness or affliction. Charon the boatman. Ferried souls across Acheron. If they didn’t have payments the soul would wander on the banks of Acheron forever. Shades.

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Greek Underworld

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  1. Greek Underworld

  2. Enter the Abode of the Dead

  3. Acheron • The river of woe, sadness or affliction

  4. Charon the boatman • Ferried souls across Acheron. If they didn’t have payments the soul would wander on the banks of Acheron forever.

  5. Shades • To the Greeks, the soul was a pale reflection of its former personality, a shade of its former self.

  6. Erebus – all the dead had to pass here – perhaps a limbo. Judgment came later. Hades: Erebus, Tartarus and the Elysium Fields

  7. Aeacus – Europeans Rhadamanthus – Asiatics Minos – difficult cases Shades were sent to either Tartarus or Elysium The judges

  8. Cocytus – river of lamentation or wailing

  9. The ones who spun, measured and cut the thread of life. The Fates

  10. Nemesis - the spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to hubris, vengeful fate personified as a remorseless goddess. Also – just rewards.

  11. The Furies With serpents for hair and blood dripping from their eyes, they pursued sinners on earth but lived in the underworld.

  12. Queen of the dead and goddess of magic charms and enchantments. You may remember her from Macbeth. Hecate

  13. The River Styx Had nine loops and surrounded the underworld. If a god swore by her, the oath was irrevocable. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzEF9UOs_ug

  14. Cerberus The watchdog at the gates of Tartarus.

  15. Tartarus Where sinners endured punishment

  16. Tanatos/Mors – death Hypnos/Somnus – Sleep, brother of death Morpheus – son of sleep and god of dreams The Abode of the Dead

  17. Lethe The river of forgetfulness

  18. Elysium Fields Eternal bliss

  19. Hades and Persephone

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