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)

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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).

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

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Scholars’ trail — 4references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

GreekFox 143
NorseDe la Saussaye 350, MacCulloch Eddic 330, Boberg. – Chibcha: Alexander Lat. Am. 198
IndiaThompson-Balys.
general Gaster Oldest Stories 50

Within the index

Filed under Nature of the lower world.

2 finer motifs beneath it

Ferryman on river in lower world (Charon)Maiden at the bridge to hell

Filed beside it

Hell. Lower world of torment Hound of hell. Cerberus (monstrous dog) guards the bridge to the lower world Judges in the lower world Ship of hell Workmen and tradesmen of hell In other world one room contains the dead, another contains souls of the unborn waiting to enter the wombs of women, and a third contains all the evil spirits Sun in the underworld Hole to lower world up which people come Nature of the lower world – miscellaneous

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