Heaven Bridge

a bridge, some times called the Bridge of Death, sup —_— to reach from this world tc eaven, spanning the aby of hell Along this bridge the souls of the de parted must travel: the good to pa over in safety, the wicked to fall int« the aby . It is spoken of under dif ferent names in the Zend-Avesta, in the Rabbinical literature, and the Preliminary Discourse to Sale’s translation of the Koran. This bridge exists in the mythology of the Javanese, the Karens, the Bornese, the Green landers, and the Indians of North and South America. It has a place in the myth of Baldur; it lingers in the English song of “The Brig o’ Dread”; and to this day the peasant of the Nievre tells of a little board put by - John between the. earth walle Paraise, Hebe, the Greek godde of yeuth, daughter of Jupiter and Juno— answering to the Latin godde Juventas, She was originally the cup-bearer to the gods, but being superseded by Ganymede, she was employed to harne her mother’s —— and prepare Juno’s chariot. he subsequently became the wife of Hercules and the mother of Alexares and Aniatus.