Hades Moon
The living think of the underworld as a place apart from the world they see each day. Christian minds think of Heaven above and Hell below, while other faiths have seen our souls' destinations as separate realms entirely. The Greeks, though, and the Romans after them, believed everyone descended into the earth to meet what paradise or punishment they deserved. In the myth, the god of the underworld rose up from the ground and snatched his bride-to-be, disappearing without a trace. The world suffered for her absence, and in her time she became a queen, thereafter symbolized by seeds as red as blood. In my experience, the Greeks, the Christians, the Taoists and the Egyptians and all the rest got it wrong: the underworld in which the dead dwell is neither above nor below, rather it is beside, overlapping with the land of the living, but generally only visible at night. We walk right next to them, and most of them never know when death passes by, though some few can ...
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