"Easy is the way down to the Underworld:
by night and by day dark Hade's door stands open;
but to retrace one's steps and to make a way out
to the upper air, that's the task, that is the labor"
Virgil
Charon Crossing the Styx, the River to Hades, 1512-24
Joachim Patinir
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
