Other cultures have their own "gates to hell." Here's a sampling:
Greece and Turkey. Other Ploutonions were found
around the Greek eastern Mediterranean, often in places where
underground gases escaped, including one at Eleusis. The Acheron River in northwest Greece was also linked to the underworld (Charon was the ferryman of the dead).
Italy. In Sicily, near Enna, lies the cleft through
which Hades himself is rumored to have brought Persephone to the
underworld, where she ate six pomegranate seeds, thus dooming the Earth
to six months of winter every year. The Roman hero Aeneas is said to
have entered the underworld through or near Lake Avernus in the volcanic
landscape near Naples; a different legend of Odysseus names the same
spot for his descent.
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