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Cyclical vs. Linear Models
Adulthood
Decline
DeathRenewal
Birth
Birth
Adulthood
Death
Cerberus
Rivers of Hades
Styx (Shuddering, Hate)Lethe (vs. Mnemosyne)Cocytus (Lamentation, Wailing)Phlegethon (Fire)Acheron (Woe)
Eidolon
Psyche
Tantalus
Mystery Religion
Eleusinian mysteries Open to anyone who
could travel and provide sacrifice
Fasting, followed by sacred drink
Shown secret things – how to have a pleasurable afterlife
Only members of mystery cult would have a good afterlife
Orphism Only from following
teaching of Orpheus and leading aesthetic life can soul be freed from cycle of rebirth
Precise instructions of what to say and do (spells) in underworld to avoid reincarnation
Pythagoreans metempsychosis
Osiris
•God of Civilization•Killed and dismembered by Set/Seth•God of Underworld•Continuity of life/death through Pharaoh
Anubis
