From: Frederic Ferro (ferro@Princeton.EDU)
Date: Wed 05 Apr 2000 - 17:46:53 EEST
In Digest v7 #519, Nick Brook took his lute and sang:
> the Gloranthan Styx also acts rather like the Lethe. Styx water makes
> you forget. Elves swim across the Styx to lose the memories of their former
> lives, before they are reborn.
I can see how Darkness is Oblivion for these children of Yelmalio
(Halamalao?). As Annilla may be the daughter of Yelm and the Styx, there
is certainly a mystic cult of Blue Elves where the cycle of the Blue
Streak is a symbol of Elvish Reincarnation.
IMC, a Troll fell in the Styx during a Quest for Secrets beneath the Earth
and he drank three drops of the liquid which seemd to be poisonous. He
conceived a child recently (the parents don't know yet if the child is
Enlo or Uz). I wonder if the child could be inhabited by a Dehori or by
the memories of an elf...
The virgilian Philip Hibbs said:
> In Greek mythology, the other rivers are Lethe, Acheron, Cocytus and
> Phlegethon. I thought Mnemesyne was one, but I'm not sure.
The (Pyre-)phlegethon is the name I give IMC to Tanian's Flamesea
(Umaliath?) and the Stygian Firebergs. There is also Lodril's Realm,
inhabited by Salamanders, Magma-Mostali and Crimson Trolls.
In Hell, we also found a Dantesque Icy Cocytus (Ninth Circle of Perjurers
IIRC): the Crystalshard River (also called Inora's Chilling Tears) which
contains frozen memories of the past. Only Horils can swim there.
Mnemosyne as an opposite to Lethe is Daliath's Spring. As Daliath is
Purification, the Pyrephlegethon could be a tributary.
I have problems with the aspect of Styx as Garrotte of the Oathbreakers.
That sounds too Greek and the mythical explanation is a little weak.
ff
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