Motif
burial required before afterlife passage
burial_required_before_afterlife_passage
A motif of the Afterlife Navigation and Passage family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
roman
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The Aeneid of Virgil BOOK FIFTH / THE GAMES OF THE FLEET / BOOK SIXTH / THE VISION OF THE UNDER WORLD; lines 3704-3794 confidence: high
The priestess identifies Cocytus and the Stygian marsh, says the crowd is unsepultured, and explains that only those with tombs may cross; the unburied wander for a hundred years.
The priestess states that unsepultured souls cannot cross the banks and streams until their dust rests, and Palinurus asks for earth to be cast over him.
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