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I close my eyelids
There was nothing more to say
I've seen it all before
But I find comfort in silence
summer melacholia
The air shivered against my skin
Dark leaned into my eyes
Those threatening clouds
The sweet music of the summer rain
The mist in early hours
The dominant winds...

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“Stealing the Fare” by Chronoperates

According to classical mythology, the dead must pay the ferryman Charon two coins in order to pass over the river Styx and into the Underworld. Consequently, the ancient Greeks would place coins in the mouths or over the eyes of their deceased loved ones…

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Heimdallr: Loki, thou art drunk, and hast lost thy wits. Why dost thou not leave off, Loki? But drunkennesss o rules every man, that he knows not of his garrulity.
Loki: Be silent, Heimdallr! For thee in early days was that hateful life decreed; with a wet back thou must ever be, and keep watch as guardian of the gods.
Skaði: Thou art merry, Loki! Not long wilt thou frisk with an unbound tail; for thee, on a rock’s point, with the entrails of thy ice-cold son, the gods will bind.

-Excerpt from Lokasenna from the Poetic Edda