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| | Death class papers: Myth and Death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27) |
 | | Several rivers, generally five in number, are believed to have to be crossed to reach Tartaros: Lethe, the river of forgetfulness, Cocytus, the river of wailing, Styx, the river of hate, Acheron, the river of woe, and Pyriphlegethon or Phlegethon, the river of fire. |
 | | Their existence at Tartaros is simply a continuance of their state during the time of their death; no further personal progression takes place, they remain exactly the way they were, even in their appearance: "and many fighting men killed in battle, stabbed with brazen spears, still carrying their bloody armor upon them." |
 | | Not unlike the conception and birth of Christ, it was common knowledge in the Greek mythology that Heracles was conceived by a virgin maiden from the main divinity, Alcmena and Zeus, and therefore assumed a special position for his lineage as the son of God: "For I was son of Kronian Zeus.". |
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