Such a nightmare and yet they keep coming. How horribleit must be to leave home, family, all that you know to walk a thousand miles to face the challenges of entering the US.
I remember an episode of Xena, Warrior Princess in which Xena is searching for her lost, possibly deceased, “annoying blonde sidekick” Garbrielle. She approaches Hades, who is walking through the remains of a battlefield, eyeing the bodies one by one and instructing an assistant: “Tartarus, Tartarus, Elysian Fields, Tartarus, Tartarus, Elysian Fields…” She asks Hades if he’s seen Gabrielle—that is, is she dead? He furrows his brow and replies, “No; since she was Greek, if she died I would have seen her.” Then Xena remembers that Gabrielle was also a Queen of the Amazons, and realizes that she really has also to check with the Amazon death dieties. I thought that it was an interesting concept that a person’s religion dictates his or her post-mortem destination.
(This is of course at odds with the concept of The Good Place, in which every religion is about 5% right, but there is only one Good Place and one Bad Place that everyone, regardless of religion, goes to. (Plus a Middle Place, but that’s an anomaly.))
stairsteppublishing over 3 years ago
Such a nightmare and yet they keep coming. How horribleit must be to leave home, family, all that you know to walk a thousand miles to face the challenges of entering the US.
Kirk Barnes Premium Member over 3 years ago
That hasn’t stopped anyone else…
cherns Premium Member over 3 years ago
I remember an episode of Xena, Warrior Princess in which Xena is searching for her lost, possibly deceased, “annoying blonde sidekick” Garbrielle. She approaches Hades, who is walking through the remains of a battlefield, eyeing the bodies one by one and instructing an assistant: “Tartarus, Tartarus, Elysian Fields, Tartarus, Tartarus, Elysian Fields…” She asks Hades if he’s seen Gabrielle—that is, is she dead? He furrows his brow and replies, “No; since she was Greek, if she died I would have seen her.” Then Xena remembers that Gabrielle was also a Queen of the Amazons, and realizes that she really has also to check with the Amazon death dieties. I thought that it was an interesting concept that a person’s religion dictates his or her post-mortem destination.
(This is of course at odds with the concept of The Good Place, in which every religion is about 5% right, but there is only one Good Place and one Bad Place that everyone, regardless of religion, goes to. (Plus a Middle Place, but that’s an anomaly.))
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 3 years ago
On a special hour long episode the brothers Victor and Valintino help a dead little girl find her way in Mictlan to reach her dead family.
bakana over 3 years ago
I never thought about it, but she’s Right.
Texas does seem a lot like an Underworld these days.
A Valhalla for Conservatives and a Hell for everyone else.
Sisyphos over 3 years ago
There are Underworlds and there are Underworlds! And there is the soft underbelly of the U.S….
bakana over 3 years ago
EEP? Is JMS hanging around here somewhere?
einarbt over 3 years ago
No options for the Christian and Muslim myths? Then again if all myths were to be included the list would run in the 1000s of options.
craigwestlake over 3 years ago
“Papers?! I don’t need no steenking papers.’…