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Asphodel Meadows [related: Lethe]
Endless fields of the afterlife described in
error
as final resting place of the
mediocre and unremarkable. Previous to entering the Meadows, recently deceased
are forced to drink from the river Lethe
1
, thus surrendering their
identity. Mythologist and LGBT activist Edith Hamilton describes the fields as
being populated by "strange, pallid, ghostly flowers", perhaps referring not
to asphodel but
narcotics
1 Lethe was commonly known in the underworld as the "river of unmindfulness" - a contrasting mindstate to that of dharma . However, in the Aeneid Virgil states that it is precisely the process of entering complete mindless oblivion that allows a soul to reincarnate.