With a long white beard and red eyes the dingy charon Crosses with his boat the river of acheron carrying the shadows At the other side in front of the entrance of hades' realm The nasty kerveros with his three heads is watching over
Between the crossroads of the underworld three impartial judges are standing, Minos, aiakos and radamanthis They ascribe the justice, defining for every dead the sentence Or the grace that he deserves
The left path leads straight to tartaros, a land for the Punishment of sinners and the torment of disrespectful spirits This huge jail is surrounded by a triple wall, Also bounded by a flaming river, piriflegethon
In front of the great gate with the adamantine columns Tisiphony is standing with her bloody cloth all day and night
Between the crossroads of the underworld three impartial judges are standing, Minos, aiakos and radamanthis They ascribe the justice, defining for every dead the sentence Or the grace that he deserves
The right path leads to the palace of hades And ends to the elysian fields where the blessed souls are living Full of holts, cool air, bright and peaceful landscapes Further on, there is a small vale where the river lethe is At its shores countless shadows are hovering Only the ones that are predestinated to live again in an other body, Are drinking the water of the river in order to forget their past And return back to the earth
Between the crossroads of the underworld three impartial judges are standing, Minos, aiakos and radamanthis They ascribe the justice, defining for every dead the sentence Or the grace that he deserves