Ship of hell — Mythoi

Motif

Ship of hell.

Mythological motifs. · Cosmogony and cosmology. · The universe. · Nature of the universe. · Nature of the lower world. · view the constellation · filed as A676

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Filed across the traditions

Icel. MacCulloch Eddic 340, 343.

Within the index

Filed under Nature of the lower world.

Filed beside it

Hell. Lower world of torment 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) Hound of hell. Cerberus (monstrous dog) guards the bridge to the lower world Judges in the lower world 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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