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  2. Lethe - Wikipedia

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    The river Lethe was said to be located next to Hades's palace in the underworld under a cypress tree. Orpheus would give some shades (the Greek term for ghosts or spirits) a password to tell Hades's servants which would allow them to drink instead from the Mnemosyne (the pool of memory), which was located under a poplar tree. [2]

  3. Cocytus - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Acheron - Wikipedia

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    The word is also occasionally used as a synecdoche for Hades itself. Virgil mentions Acheron with the other infernal rivers in his description of the underworld in Book VI of the Aeneid. In Book VII, line 312 [13] he gives to Juno the famous saying, flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo: 'If I cannot bend the will of Heaven, I shall move ...

  5. Greek underworld - Wikipedia

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    Rivers are a fundamental part of the topography of the underworld and are found in the earliest source materials: [12] In Homer's Iliad, the "ghost" of Patroclus makes specific mention of gates and a river (unnamed) in Hades; [13] in Homer's Odyssey, the "ghost" of Odysseus's mother, Anticlea, describes there being many "great rivers and appalling streams", and reference is made to at least ...

  6. List of mythological places - Wikipedia

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    The legendary location of Jesus Christ's Temptation, traditionally placed at Jebel Quruntul or 'Ushsh el-Ghurab near Jericho in the West Bank: Nbu: The Mandaic name for the planet Mercury. Pandæmonium: The capital of Hell in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Piriawis: The sacred life-giving river of the World of Light in Mandaean cosmology. Pleroma

  7. Phlegethon - Wikipedia

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    In Orphic literature, in which there are four rivers of the underworld, the Phlegethon is associated with the element of fire, and the direction east. [ 3 ] In Oedipus by Seneca the Younger , the first singing of the chorus, which mainly describes the plague that has settled in Thebes , includes the line, "Phlegethon has changed his course and ...

  8. Styx - Wikipedia

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    For example, according to Homer, the river Titaressus, a tributary of the river Peneius in Thessaly, was a branch of the Styx. [39] However Styx has been most commonly associated with an Arcadian stream and waterfall (the Mavronéri ) that runs through a ravine on the North face of mount Chelmos and flows into the Krathis river. [ 40 ]

  9. Naiad - Wikipedia

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    daughters of the river god Ismenus; mother, by Pan, of Crenaeus, a defender of Thebes against the Seven: Lethe: Lethe River, Hades - Memphis: Nile River, Egypt daughter of Nilus; she was the wife to Epaphus and mother of Libya and Anippe or Lysianassa: Metis: Meles River, Smyrna daughter of the river god Meles; mother of Homer by Maeon: Moria ...