The Golden Bough (mythology) Aeneas tore off the bough, a second golden one immediately sprang up, which was a good omen, as the sibyl had said that if this did not happen the coming endeavor would fail. Soon after they started their descent into the Underworld, the Sibyl showed the golden bough to Charon who only then allowed them to enter his boat and cross the Stygian river. On the other side, she cast a drugged cake to the three-headed watchdog Cerberus, who swallowed it and fell asleep. Once in the Underworld, Aeneas tried talking to some shades, and listened to the Sibyl speak
Gate deities of the underworld afterlife is finished and the sun rises on the world in the form of a sacred scarab (Khepri, deification of the morning sun). The British egyptologist George Hart thus outlined, in his "Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses" (1986), the evocative names of these deities and their positions in the netherworld as described in the funeral papyri known to scholars: Gate deities of the underworld The Gate deities of the underworld were ancient Egyptian minor deities charged with guarding the gates of the Egyptian underworld. The Egyptians believed that in the netherworld, the Duat, there were various gates, doors and