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In Greek mythology, Rhadamanthus (/ ˌ r æ d ə ˈ m æ n θ ə s /) or Rhadamanthys (Ancient Greek: Ῥαδάμανθυς) was a wise king of Crete. As the son of Zeus and Europa he was considered a demigod. He later became one of the judges of the dead and an important figure in Greek mythology.
Aeacus (Αιακός), a king of the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf; after he died, he became one of the three judges of the dead in the Underworld; Aeëtes, a king of Colchis and father of Medea; Aegeus (Αιγεύς), a king of Athens and father of Theseus; Aegimius, a king of Thessaly and progenitor of the Dorians
In Greek mythology, Minos (/ˈmaɪnɒs, -nəs/; Greek: Μίνως, [mǐːnɔːs]) was a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years, he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus's creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by the Minotaur.
Rhadamanthus judged Asian souls, Aeacus judged European souls and Minos was the deciding vote and judge of the Greek. [18] Souls regarded as unjust or perjured would go to Tartarus. [ 18 ] Those who committed crimes seen as curable would be purified there, while those who committed crimes seen as uncurable would be eternally damned, and ...
The central panel portrays the Hindu god Yama judges the dead. Other panels depict various realms/hells of Naraka.. Judgement in an afterlife, in which one's deeds and characteristics in life determine either punishment or reward, is a central theme of many religions.
Next, Aeneas encounters Charon, the ferryman who leads souls into the Underworld, and the mass of people who are unburied. [22] His first conversation is with Palinurus, a man of his crew who fell overboard and died on their journey. Palinurus begs Aeneas to bury him so he can enter the Underworld. [23]
Archangel Michael is commonly depicted holding scales to weigh the souls of people on Judgement Day.. The weighing of souls (Ancient Greek: psychostasia) [1] is a religious motif in which a person's life is assessed by weighing their soul (or some other part of them) immediately before or after death in order to judge their fate. [2]
In Greek mythology, the underworld or Hades (Ancient Greek: ᾍδης, romanized: Háidēs) is a distinct realm (one of the three realms that make up the cosmos) where an individual goes after death. The earliest idea of afterlife in Greek myth is that, at the moment of death, an individual's essence ( psyche ) is separated from the corpse and ...