Mystery Religions & Beliefs About Afterlife Flashcards
Death and Funerary Rites
Prothesis
- Women would wash and dress the body
- It would be laid out for visitation
- Ritual washing is done with a Loutrophoros
Loutrophoros: a greek pottery vessal
Death and Funerary Rites
Lekythos
- Held oil that would be put on the skin
- Would also be put in the tomb of the dead person
Death and Funerary Rites
Ekphora
- The procession to the grave
Death and Funerary Rites
Mourners
- The dead need mourning to make it to the afterlife
Death and Funerary Rites
Funeral games
- Happened in the Bronze Age
- Pretty specific to the funeral of a wealthy man
- Prizes are given out (tripods, women, gold, etc.)
Death and Funerary Rites
Grace markers
- The dead are often shown in carvings sitting and saying goodbye to their loved ones
- The family would visit every year and bring offerings
King of the Underworld
Hades
(Brother of Zeus and Poseidon)
Wasn’t feared
The Ferrymen who takes souls across the River Styx
Charon
(the dead needs payment to cross over the river: coin in their mouths at burial)
What represented a dead parent and seek justice for a parent’s murder?
The Furies
(Greeks called them humanities to calm them)
Who is the Guardian of Crossroads and patron of witches?
Hecate
(maid to Persephone)
What is the importance of The Crossroads?
This is where a decision can change your life
(Hecate and Hermes guard it)
Five Rivers of the Underworld
What does the River Styx represent, emotionally?
(The first river)
Hatred
(has to be crossed to get to the underworld)
Five Rivers of the Underworld
What does the River Lethe represent?
(The second river)
Forgetfulness
(drink to forget their past lives)
(drink before rebirth)
Five Rivers of the Underworld
What does the Pyriphlegethon River represent?
(The third river)
It’s the fiery river.
(it seperates Tartarus from the rest of the underworld)
Five Rivers of the Underworld
What does the Cocytus River represent?
(The fourth river)
It’s the wailing river.
