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The Vaitarani River (Gurmukhi: ਵੈਤਰਨੀ) is a river that comes on the way to Yama's court after a person dies. The Vaitarani river is also believed to exist by the Hindus. This River is a river full of blood, pus, urine and other filthy things. This river has a very bad smell to it due to it being a river full of filth.
Rivers are a fundamental part of the topography of the underworld and are found in the earliest source materials: [12] In Homer's Iliad, the "ghost" of Patroclus makes specific mention of gates and a river (unnamed) in Hades; [13] in Homer's Odyssey, the "ghost" of Odysseus's mother, Anticlea, describes there being many "great rivers and appalling streams", and reference is made to at least ...
The good can cross the river by a bridge while the evil are cast into the dragon-infested rapids. The Sanzu-no-Kawa ( 三途の川 , "Sanzu River", literally the "Three-World River" in reference to Buddhist ideas about realms of existence) is a mythological river in Japanese Buddhist tradition similar to the Chinese concept of Huang Quan ...
Trinity River has had many names over the centuries, going back long before the first Europeans in North Texas. ... The word was supposedly a Caddo term meaning a river so clean and pure, it was a ...
Initiates were taught that they would receive a choice of rivers to drink from after death, and to drink from Mnemosyne instead of Lethe. These two rivers are attested in several verse inscriptions on gold plates dating to the 4th century BC and onward, found at Thurii in Southern Italy and elsewhere throughout the Greek world.
The Yazoo River was named by French explorer La Salle in 1682 as "Rivière des Yazous" in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth at its confluence with the Mississippi. The exact meaning of the term is unclear. One long held belief is that it means "river of death". [1]
The Homeric poems describe the Acheron as a river of Hades, into which Cocytus and Phlegethon both flowed. [4] [5] The Roman poet Virgil called the Acheron the principal river of Tartarus, from which the Styx and the Cocytus both sprang. [6] The newly dead would be ferried across the Acheron by Charon in order to enter the Underworld. [7]
Rivers died a week after the incident and a state medical examiner completed an autopsy but was not able to determine the cause of death. In 1985, Rivers appeared on Good Morning America, where ...