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Erebus

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Canonical name
Erebus
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None
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Location
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Individual
Parent location
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Editorial note
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Aliases

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No aliases recorded.

Present entities

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

2
·Hypothetical

The sacrificial ram and black ewe are to have their heads bent toward Erebus.

See evidence text
“bending their heads towards Erebus”
·Remembered

Ghosts troop from Erebus toward the sacrificial blood.

See evidence text
“I cut the throats of the two sheep and let the blood run into the trench, whereon the ghosts came trooping up from Erebus”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

3
·Reported
“bending their heads towards Erebus”
·Remembered
“the ghosts came trooping up from Erebus”
·Reported
“turned towards Erebus”

Passage preview

Book 10 · Passage 45

‘‘When you shall have thus besought the ghosts with your prayers, offer them a ram and a black ewe, bending their heads towards Erebus; but yourself turn away from them as though you would make towards the river. On this, many dead men’s ghosts will come to you, and you must tell your men to skin the two sheep that you have just killed, and offer them as a burnt sacrifice with prayers to Hades and to Proserpine. Then draw your sword and sit there, so as to prevent any other poor ghost from coming near the spilt blood before Teiresias shall have answered your questions. The seer will presently come to you, and will tell you about your voyage—what stages you are to make, and how you are to sail the sea so as to reach your home.’