Acheron Cocytus and Phlegethon both flowed. The Roman poet Virgil called it the principal river of Tartarus, from which the Styx and Cocytus both sprang. The newly dead would be ferried across the Acheron by Charon in order to enter the Underworld. The Suda describes the river as "a place of healing, not a place of punishment, cleansing and purging the sins of humans". According to later traditions, Acheron had been a son of Helios and either Gaia or Demeter, who had been turned into the Underworld river bearing his name after he refreshed the Titans with drink during their contest
Way of the Gods according to the Confucian Tradition of Yiguandao and broader Chinese Maternism. Way of the Gods according to the Confucian Tradition The Way of the Gods according to the Confucian Tradition (Chinese: 儒宗神教 "Rúzōng Shénjiào"), also called the Luandao (鸾道 "Phoenix Way" or 鸾门 "Luánmén", "Phoenix Gate") or Luanism (鸾教 "Luánjiào") or—from the name of its cell congregations—the phoenix halls or phoenix churches (鸾堂 "luántáng"), is a Confucian congregational religious movement of the Chinese traditional beliefs. The first phoenix hall was established in Magong, the capital of the Penghu Islands, in 1853, and from there the movement spread throughout mainland China and Taiwan. Other names of