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  Cocytus — FactMonster.com
The word means the “river of lamentation.” The unburied were doomed to wander about its banks for 100 years.
Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream.
Mint - Mint So called from the nymph Minthe, daughter of Cocytus, and a favourite of Pluto.
www.factmonster.com /dictionary/brewers/cocytus.html   (114 words)

  
 Dante: Cocytus
This particular section of hell -- Cocytus -- is called Caina, named of course, after the Biblical Cain.
The third section of Cocytus is called Ptolomea is the home of the Treacherous to Guests and Hosts.
These sinners are pinned in the ice, their eyes shut with frozen tears.
www.teachersfirst.com /lessons/dante/lesson10.htm   (332 words)

  
 Cocytus
In Greek mythology, Cocytus, meaning river of wailing (Greek kokutos, "lamentation") was the river in the underworld on the banks of which the dead who could not pay Charon wandered, according to most accounts for one hundred years.
It flowed into the river Acheron, across which lay Hades, the mythological abode of the dead.
In the Divine Comedy (Inferno), Cocytus is the ninth and lowest circle of Hell and is frozen by the flapping wings of Lucifer, or Satan.
www.knowledgefun.com /book/c/co/cocytus.html   (216 words)

  
 Dante's Inferno Test - Impurity, Sin, and Damnation
This is the deepest level of hell, where the fallen angel Satan himself resides.
His wings flap eternally, producing chilling cold winds that freeze the thick ice found in Cocytus.
The three faces of Satan, fl, red, and yellow, can be seen with mouths gushing bloody foam and eyes forever weeping, as they chew on the three traitors, Judas, Brutus, and Cassius.
www.4degreez.com /misc/dante-inferno-information.html   (1079 words)

  
 COCYTUS : Greek god of the underworld river of tears ; mythology : KOKYTOS
KOKYTOS (or Cocytus), the river of wailing, was one of the five rivers of the underworld and its god.
All this crown you see are the helpless ones, the unburied: that ferryman in Charon: the ones he conveys have had burial.
"She [the Erinys Tisiphone] sat beside dismal Cocytus, and had loosed the snakes from her head and suffered them to lap the sulphurous waters."
www.theoi.com /Khthonios/PotamosKokytos.html   (1025 words)

  
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Cocytus is currently seeking a new lead guitarist.
Come to the show maybe one will be there.
www.myspace.com /cocytus   (662 words)

  
 river cocytus - OneLook Dictionary Search
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River Cocytus : LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
www.onelook.com /?loc=rescb&w=river+cocytus   (87 words)

  
 antigames.de » Noch ein Besuch of Cocytus
Anscheinend hatte die NASA gerade kein Geld mehr übrig.
Die Alians auf Cocytus waren auch nicht in Spacetime Six gefangen, sondern es war tatsächlich das erhoffte Paradies.
Der Planet war somit eine Art Test, um festzustellen mit welchen außercocytanischen Völkern das Geheimnis dieses Paradieses geteilt werden konnte.
www.antigames.de /2005/12/22/noch-ein-besuch-of-cocytus   (447 words)

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