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m y t h s a n d c o s m o l o g y
some of the following is a bit off but the general image is reasonably strong - I'm thinking too hard about the structure and location of the Realms while lacking any firsthand experience… their nature is more important than their organization, I think… and really, that should reveal itself once I have enough actual hours logged, neh?
River of Forgetfulness (Lethe) and River of Memory (Mnemosyne), where you go when you die… you slip out of your body. If you are not guided or refuse the guide, you may suffer wandering as a ghost until you figure your way. (Death rites include calling to death guide.) Xe guides you to the Mnemosyne, where you are washed and regain your memories, only what you've subjectively experienced up till that point, although all happening is at once and it is possible to travel through "void spots" and end up in the "future." You "socialise" in the Shining World and/or Shadowed World until you are to be born again, when you are washed in the Lethe to forget most and then born. Getting to the Shining and Shadowed worlds from here requires "astral projection" - a physical body can't go there. Souls from the Shining and Shadowed worlds can wander here unnoticed, of course, but getting "down" to the physical can be tough. The guide, goes through a Gate to the Lake of Two Rivers, where the Lethe and Mnemosyne mix, and the Shining and Shadowed realms can be seen on either side with bridges spanning the shores. This journey appears as though they sailed on a silver ship with milk-white sail down a dark but starry river until they approach the lake, which is like utter void as Memory and Oblivion mix. There is, of course, Void space outside the shores of the quasi-space "river" the guide sailed - basically they went through a wormhole, and there is space outside that tube that is part of no realm. Gates go through it, and beings live at the very fringes of it where it touches gate-conduits and the Three Realms (though it's closer to Shining and Shadowed than it is Twilit). Think the swan-souls at the "starry shore" in Loom and how Bobbin opens gates and passes through it (his "river" isn't visible, but he's following currents).
the image and concept of the Star Tree is very strong.
There are Ancestors within the Land (possibly also within the Sky? sky and land families?). When we incarnate we separate from that, and then go back at death. Or possibly just "extending" ourselves into this realm for the lifespan.