Asphodel Meadows
[related: Lethe]
Endless fields of the afterlife described in Greek Mythology 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 narcissus.
- ↑ Lethe was commonly known in the underworld as the "river of unmindfulness"--a contrasting mindstate to that of enlightenment. However, in the Aeneid Virgil states that it is precisely the process of entering complete mindless oblivion that allows a soul to reincarnate.