A lone ship sails through a dark, blue-green stream, surrounded by shadow and silence. The light of the lamp cuts through the mist, marking the boundary between life and death. This is the river Styx, separating the world of the living from the underworld.
"And they all swore by the waters of Styx, the dark stream that binds even the gods."
- Hesiod, Theogony
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Sing to us, ancient voices, of stories that do not fade.
Of Gilgamesh who sought to escape death, of Icarus who flew too high,
of the tower that reached for heaven and the gate that led to the underworld.
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