Necromanteion of Acheron

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28 points | by drdee a day ago ago

5 comments

  • photonthug an hour ago

    > consuming a meal [..] and a narcotic compound. [..] the celebrants would then witness the priest arise from the floor and begin to fly through the temple through the use of theatrical cranes

    Everything I'm looking for in a good haunted theme park

  • EdwardDiego 4 hours ago

    I'm so curious to know _why_ the Greeks went "yep, that river Acheron, that's one of the five rivers of the underworld".

    Does it emerge from a cave? Drain into a cave?

    Just look spooky at night?

    • knodi123 3 hours ago

      Maybe there's a certain smell? Sulfurous, or rotting?

    • Log_out_ 2 hours ago

      city upriver burries a guy.. cave. Graveyard caves into a underground river, river fills with corpses for a week?