“Hermes held in his hand the golden rod that he uses to lull men’s eyes asleep when he so wills, or again to wake others from their slumber; with this he roused the ghosts of the newly dead and led them on, and they followed him, thinly gibbering … Hermes led them down through the ways of darkness. They passed the streams of Okeanos, the White Rock, the Gates of the Sun and the Land of Dreams, and soon they came to the Field of Asphodel where the phantoms of the dead have their habitation.” – Homer, Odyssey 24.1 & 99 ff
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