Dreams of Pluto
2018
(click/tap at either edge to advance/reverse)Pluto was an Underworld God of the Classical Greek religions, who comprised the sense of death encompassing the totality of wealth and fortune. In an epoch marked by the trade of precious ore, the subterranean was both a place of death and of wealth and fortune. Pluto is also involved in the conceptual linkage of the harvest with the dead phase of winter; the holism of change also thought to be subterranean in origin. At this time the many worship cults of Pluto built temple complexes, called Ploutonion.
These places were frequently the destination of pilgrims seeking healing of various kinds, from the bodily to the psychological. In exchange for tribute, ceremonies were performed using noxious gas vents concealed within the inner sanctum. Besides the theater of death, dramatic plays were put on and votive offerings shaped in the image of an ailing aspect of the body were left as offerings for a return to health & fortune. The ailing were helped to process the grief of conditions that medicine could not directly treat, through internal seeking.