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the Gates of the Sun
Gates of the Sun
also: Ἠελίοιο πύλαι
A threshold the dead pass on Hermes's road to Hades, just before the land of dreams.
Reading notes
- The Odyssey §24.1 the gates of the Sun
A landmark on Hermes's road down to the dead, passed with the streams of Ocean, the White Rock and the land of dreams as he leads the suitors' gibbering shades to the meadow of asphodel.