Rivers reflecting the underworld emotions:

There are five main rivers that are visible both in the living world and the underworld.

Their names were meant to reflect the emotions associated with death.

• Hate – The Styx is generally considered to be one of the most prominent and central rivers of the Underworld and is also the most widely known out of all the rivers. It’s known as the river of hatred and is named after the goddess Styx. This river circles the underworld seven times.
• Pain – The Acheron is the river of pain. It’s the one that Charon, also known as the Ferryman, rows the dead over according to many mythological accounts, though sometimes it is the river Styx or both.
• Forgetfulness – The Lethe is the river of forgetfulness. It is associated with the goddess Lethe, the goddess of forgetfulness and oblivion. In later accounts, a poplar branch dripping with water of the Lethe became the symbol of Hypnos, the god of sleep.
• The Phlegethon is the river of fire. According to Plato, this river leads to the depths of Tartarus.
• Wailing or loss – The Cocytus is the river of wailing.
• Mortality -Flesh Humanism – Oceanus is the river that encircles the world, and it marks the east edge of the underworld, as Erebos is west of the mortal world.

Entrance of the Underworld also know as Sheol in scriptures:

In front of the entrance to the underworld, bottomless pit live Grief, Anxiety, Diseases, and Old Age.

Fear, Hunger, Death, Agony, torment, terror, and Sleep also live in front of the entrance, together with Guilty and condemnation.

On the opposite threshold is War, the Erinyes, and Eris.

‘Close to the doors are many beasts, including Centaurs, Gorgons, the Lernaean Hydra, the Chimera, and Harpies.

A tree containing leaves with false dreams:

In the midst of all this, an Elm can be seen where false dreams cling under every leaf.

Isaiah 28:15

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

False dreams of wet dreams, incubus & succubus, love of money, selfishness, bestiality, homosexuality, corruption, political deception, false democracy, sexual fantasies, fame, idolatry, adultery, etc…

Are used as visual fantasies of illusion or images in people’s dreams for the sake of  increasing falsehood and immorality in the earth.

The souls that enter the Underworld carry a coin under their tongue to pay Charon to take them across the river. Charon may make exceptions or allowances for those visitors carrying a certain Golden Bough.

Charon is appallingly filthy, with eyes like jets of fire, a bush of unkempt beard upon his chin, and a dirty cloak hanging from his shoulders.

Although Charon embarks now one group now another, some souls he grimly turns away.

These are the unburied which can’t be taken across from bank to bank until they receive a proper burial.

Across the river, guarding the gates of the Underworld is Cerberus.

There is also an area where the Judges of the Underworld decide where to send the souls of the person — to Elysium, the Fields of Asphodel, or Tartarus.

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