Myths of a figure who goes down among the dead and comes back or is transformed: Inanna's descent in Sumer, Orpheus and Eurydice in Greece and Sedna the Inuit mistress of the sea. A myth belongs here when its cited article describes a descent to the realm of the dead. It excludes dying gods. Examples in the atlas include Inanna's Descent to the Underworld, Orpheus and Eurydice and Sedna, Mistress of the Sea.
All Journeys to the Underworld and Return
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Orpheus (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Orpheus and Eurydice, Introduction, sentence 2Quote, Has Member: Orpheus and Eurydice, Introduction, sentence 2
He was also a renowned poet and, according to legend, travelled with Jason and the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece, and descended into the underworld to recover his lost wife, Eurydice.
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