Maiden at the bridge to hell

Motif

Maiden at the bridge to hell.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · Nature of the lower world. · view the constellation · filed as A672.2

Filed across the traditions

Icel. MacCulloch Eddic 130, 304.

Within the index

Filed under Stygian river. River in lower world. In Greek myth five such rivers in Hades, Styx (hate), Acheron (mourning), Kokytus (lamentation), Lethe (forgetfulness) and Pyrephlegethon (flame).

Filed beside it

Ferryman on river in lower world (Charon)

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