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In Greek mythology, Styx (/ ˈ s t ɪ k s /; Ancient Greek: Στύξ; lit. "Shuddering" [1]), also called the River Styx, is a goddess and one of the rivers of the Greek Underworld. Her parents were the Titans Oceanus and Tethys, and she was the wife of the Titan Pallas and the mother of Zelus, Nike, Kratos, and Bia.
In Greek mythology, Lethe (/ ˈ l iː θ iː /; Ancient Greek: Λήθη Lḗthē; Ancient Greek: [lɛ̌ːtʰɛː], Modern Greek:) was one of the rivers of the underworld of Hades. Also known as the Amelēs potamos (river of unmindfulness), the Lethe flowed around the cave of Hypnos and through the Underworld where all those who drank from it ...
Gjöll is the river that flows closest to the gate of the underworld. Within the Norse mythology, the dead must cross the Gjallarbrú , the bridge over Gjöll, to reach Hel . The bridge, which was guarded by Móðguðr , was crossed by Hermóðr during his quest to retrieve Baldr from the land of the dead.
In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (/ ˈ k ɛər ɒ n,-ən / KAIR-on, -ən; Ancient Greek: Χάρων) is a psychopomp, the ferryman of the Greek underworld. He carries the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the rivers Acheron and Styx, which separate the worlds of the living and the dead. [1]
Nephthys, goddess of rivers, death, mourning, the dead, and night. Nu, uncreated god, personification of the primordial waters. Osiris, god of the dead and afterlife; originally a god of water and vegetation. Satet, goddess of the Nile River's floods. Sobek, god of the Nile river, is depicted as a crocodile or a man with the head of a crocodile.
The Vaitarani (Sanskrit: वैतरणी, romanized: Vaitaraṇī), also called the Vaitarana, is a river in Indian religions.Described in the Garuda Purana and various other Hindu religious texts, the Vaitarani lies between the Earth and the infernal Naraka, the realm of Yama, the Hindu god of death.
The good can cross the river by a bridge while the evil are cast into the dragon-infested rapids. The Sanzu-no-Kawa ( 三途の川 , "Sanzu River", literally the "Three-World River" in reference to Buddhist ideas about realms of existence) is a mythological river in Japanese Buddhist tradition similar to the Chinese concept of Huang Quan ...
Cocytus / k oʊ ˈ s aɪ t ə s / or Kokytos / k oʊ ˈ k aɪ t ə s / (Ancient Greek: Κωκυτός, literally "lamentation") is the river of wailing in the underworld in Greek mythology. [1] Cocytus flows into the river Acheron, on the other side of which lies Hades, the underworld, the mythological abode of the dead.