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[Alexandr Korol]

I also liked reading about Elysium, paradise, and hell – that is, Tartarus, as it was called in ancient Greek mythology. It says there that “the deepest abyss located beneath the kingdom of Hades (a concept starting with Hesiod), served as a prison where, after the Titanomachy, Zeus cast down Cronus...,” and so on. But something else is curious. It states: “The ancient Greek poet Hesiod, in the poem “Theogony,” places Tartarus beneath the earth “as far below as the heavens are above.” Later authors came to consider Tartarus as the most distant place in Hades.” So why is it described as being as far as the heavens? Because if we now imagine a sphere, we can rotate it in different ways, and it consists of two halves: black and white. The very top, the cap, is completely white, and its absolute opposite at the very bottom is the deepest part of hell. And we have still been living in the era where, looking at this sphere, we could see these two halves on one disk: one side was white, the other black, and a thin dividing line in between – that was purgatory, and that was Earth. That’s why we have been touching both sides a little. And the kingdom of Hades is this disk, the world of the living, divided horizontally into two parts: the heavens and the underworld, with Earth – solid ground – as the divider. And “beneath the Earth” is the kingdom of Hades, which was hell for people in this era. But there is something even deeper: as it turns out, when the new era begins, either everyone will completely end up in paradise, or some will entirely end up in hell.

I also read on Wikipedia about the afterlife in ancient Greek mythology. It states that “the soul, after death, enters the afterlife (the otherworld). According to ancient Greek beliefs, at the moment of death, the soul separates from the body, taking the form of the deceased person, and approaches the entrance to the underworld, where it will continue its afterlife. The afterlife itself – sometimes known as Hades, named after its patron god – is located either beyond the boundaries of the ocean or in the depths of the earth. Hades is a world invisible to the living, created exclusively for the dead. In early mythology, such as in Homer’s “Iliad” or “Odyssey,” the dead were grouped indiscriminately and led a ghostly existence in the afterlife.”

It describes various explanations stating that there are six main rivers, which are visible both in the living world and in the underworld. “Each of the rivers was intended for a specific category of the deceased. Their names reflect