renting the veil ~ ascent + descent

There are five rivers. Styx, Lethe, Acheron, Cocytus and Phlegethon.
Styx the river that separates the world of the living and the world of the dead. It is said to wind around Hades nine times.
Lethe  one of the five rivers of Hades. The dead had to drink from it to forget about their lives on earth.
Cocytus river of lamentation flows into Acheron. The unburied were forced to wander around its banks for years as they weren't allowed to continue any further than this without a burial.
Phlegetho, river of fire,is one of the lesser known of the myriad rivers in Hades.
Acheron is the river of woe. The shades are ferried across this river by Charon. The path to the underworld has been described as the one that leads down to the river of woes, Acheron, pouring into Cocytus, the river of lamentation.

Elysium lay somewhere near the river Oceanus. Oceanus (Greek: Ὠκεανός, lit. "ocean") was believed to be the world-ocean in classical antiquity, which the ancient Romans and Greeks considered to be an enormous riverocean-stream at the Equator in which floated the habitable hemisphere encircling the world.

Greek mythology often located the Elysian Fields, home of the blessed dead, in the moon.

• In Gaul, the crescent moon stood for the druidic Diana.
• There has "always" been a belief that the phases of the moon influenced events on earth; not only the ebb and flow of the tides but also the rising, and falling of sap in plants; haircuts and bloodletting were scheduled with reference to the lunar cycle.
• "Moon-herbs" (plants which bloom at night) were prescribed for gynecological disorders.
• Christian iconography shows the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, is often likened to the moon or portrayed as standing or enthroned on a lunar crescent
• In the Jewish world, the moon is linked not only with the nocturnal or the other worldly but also, as in other traditions, with the feminine
• In the Basque language, the words for "deity" and "moon" were the same.
• Sioux Indians called the moon "The Old Woman Who Never Dies".
• The Gaelic name of the moon, gealach, came from Gala or Galata, original Moon-mother of Gaelic and Gaulish tribes.
• The Moon-goddess created time, with all its cycles of creation, growth, decline, and destruction, which is why ancient calendars were based on phases of the moon and menstrual cycles.
• The full moon is said to reflect heat of 200 degrees Fahrenheit across 220,000 miles with an increase over the "entire globe. . . to about two-hundredths of a degree."
  

Sea and river gods