Who knows about death ?

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live?

And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb ..."

[Socrates. Plato, Gorgias 492e]

World of the dead

Between the world of the living and that of the dead there are, it is said, great rivers and dread streams.

First, greatest and outermost is Oceanus, which winds about the earth and the sea with nine rings, but is also a subterranean river. The river Styx (river of Hate), which is a primordial figure too (daughter of Oceanus), is a branch of Oceanus and a tenth part of his water is allotted to her.

So Styx, which flows out from a rock, is the tenth ring, though some say that Styx itself corrals the souls in the Underworld with nine rings.



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