Part 4 The Afterlife, continued Ancient Greece. Excerpted form The Underworld pages 42-44 from “Mythology”, by Edith Hamilton
Three other rivers, besides Acheron and Cocytus, separatee the underworld from the world above:
Phlegethon, the river of fire;
Styx, the river of the unbreakable oath by which the gods swear;
Lethe, the river of forgetfulness.
Somewhere in this vast region is Hade’s palace, but beyond saying that it is many-gated and crowded with innumerable guests, no writer describes it.
Around it are wide wastes, wan and cold,
and meadows of asphodel*,
presumable strange, pallid, ghostly flowers.
We do not know anything more about it.
The poets did not care to linger in that
gloom-hidden abode.
*
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Part 4 The Afterlife, continued Ancient Greece. Excerpted form The Underworld pages 42-44 from “Mythology”, by Edith Hamilton
The Erinyes (the Furies), are placed by Virgil in the underworld, where they punish evildoers.
The Greek poets thought of them chiefly as pursuing sinners on the earth. They were inexorable, but just. Heraclitus says, “Not even the sun will transgress his orbit but the Erinyes, the ministers of justice, overtake him.”
They are usually represented as three: Tisiphone, Megaera, and Alecto.
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Part 4 The Afterlife, continued Ancient Greece. Excerpted form The Underworld pages 42-44 from “Mythology”, by Edith Hamilton
Sleep, and Death, his brother, dwelt in the lower world. Dreams too ascended from there to men. They passed though two gates, one of horn through which true dreams went, one of ivory for false dreams.
Part 4 The Afterlife, continued Excerpted form The Encyclopedia Britannica
For more information on Virgil: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Virgil
(FYI: not on any of my tests)
Virgil, also spelled Vergil, Latin in full Publius Vergilius Maro, (born October 15, 70 BCE, Andes, near Mantua —died September 21, 19 BCE, Brundisium), Roman poet, best known for his national epic, the Aeneid (from c. 30 BCE; unfinished at his death).
Virgil was regarded by the Romans as their greatest poet, an estimation that subsequent generations have upheld. His fame rests chiefly upon the Aeneid, which tells the story of Rome’s legendary founder and proclaims the Roman mission to civilize the world under divine guidance. His reputation as a poet endures not only for the music and diction of his verse and for his skill in constructing an intricate work on the grand scale but also because he embodied in his poetry aspects of experience and behavior of permanent significance.
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The type of hell you enter depends on your behavior during your life. You suffer in hell until all the bad karma is wiped away. Then you are reborn to start all over again.
Part 4 The Afterlife, continued Buddhism
Nirvana: a release from Rebirth
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Rebirth as Hell
Life is full of pain, suffering and misery of all sorts. To be reborn is hell. Enlightenment helps to release a person from rebirth. Enlightenment leads the way to Nirvana.
Alan Watts (American Philosopher) on Death: you go to sleep, then wake up as something else all over again without any moral justification. He then compares Western ideas with Eastern ideas
Transmigration of the Soul (in reincarnation, it is the act of the soul passing from one form to another)
There is a story I read (but forgot the source!!) about a Tibetan whose beloved daughter fell off a pathway along the Himalaya Mountain to her death. This pathway would be treacherous for the ordinary person, but the Tibetans of this village traversed this same pathway safely daily. It is all in the manner of placing the foot along the path a certain way which ensured the safety of the traveler.
A few weeks later, a goat appeared in the village and attached itself to the man. There was something in the eyes of the goat’s that sparkled joyously, the tilt of the head, and the way it would pull on his sleeve the same way his daughter did. No one knew where this goat had come from; it belonged to nobody in this village or the next.
It was concluded, that the soul of the daughter transmigrated into the goat to better learn the ways of traveling treacherous pathways.
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Transmigration of the Soul
FYI This video is for your own edification. The contents will not appear on any of my tests.
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