Lethe
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- proper noun
- /ˈliːθi/
- Literature
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Lethe
- - And for Atlas and Indros, I offer Lethe, god of oblivion.
Examples
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The Heart's History - Lewis DeSimone (Lethe Press)
Blog text (14) -
There was no trouble procuring Lethe water.
Fiction book (1991) -
And when will I taste Lethe?
Fiction book (1999) -
Lethe!
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First, you descend into your emotional life with a doctor as your guide, and then the repressed memories are washed away in the Lethe.
Fiction book (2002) -
But we from Thermopylae, we were aeons away from drinking from Lethe's stream.
Fiction book (1999) -
We could hear with ears that were no longer ears and see with eyes that were no longer eyes the stream of Lethe and the hosts of the long-suffering dead whose round beneath the earth was at last drawing to a close.
Fiction book (1999) -
Between the time the Visionary crosses the common and finds himself standing on bare ground, he, like Dante's Pilgrim, has crossed Lethe and Eunoe and entered into earthly paradise, the realm where one is prepared for a vision of the absolute.
Academic text (1997) -
In Greek mythology, the river Lethe is known for causing souls to forget their past lives.
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According to legend, drinking from the Lethe allowed the dead to forget their earthly experiences.
Synonyms
A river in the world of the dead whose water makes people forget their past lives
Compounds
- Literature
A river in the world of the dead whose water makes people forget their past lives
Surface Forms
Etymology
Lethe as a name comes from the Greek lēthē, meaning 'forgetfulness', and in myth it is the river in the underworld whose water made souls lose their memories. That is why writers and poets use Lethe to picture forgetting painful memories or a complete loss of memory.