Fictional rivers Fictional rivers The Alph is supposedly an "underground river" of Esotericism in Europe, symbolising the secret knowledge held in that Continent. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alph"
The non-existent Buenaventura River, alternatively San Buenaventura River, Río Buenaventura, etc. was once believed to run from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean in what is now the western United States. The river was chronologically the last of several imagined incarnations of an imagined Great River of the West which would be for North America west of the Rockies what the Mississippi River was east of the Rockies. ...more on Wikipedia about "Buenaventura River (legend)"
Circular River is a fictional river in Capcom's survival horror video game series Resident Evil. ...more on Wikipedia about "Circular River"
In Greek mythology, Cocytus, meaning river of wailing (Greek κωκυτός, "lamentation") was the river in the underworld on the banks of which the dead who could not pay Charon wandered, according to most accounts, for one hundred years. It flowed into the river Acheron, across which lay Hades, the mythological abode of the dead. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cocytus"
The river Eridanos (or Eridanus) is an imagined river of Greek mythology whose name has been adopted by paleogeographers to describe the real ice age river that ran in the bed of the Baltic Sea, see Eridanus (geology). ...more on Wikipedia about "Eridanos (mythology)"
In Classical Greek, Lethe literally means "forgetfulness" or "concealment". The Greek word for "truth" is a-lethe-ia, meaning "un-forgetfulness" or "un-concealment". ...more on Wikipedia about "Lethe"
Marble River is a fictional river in Capcom's survival horror video game series Resident Evil. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marble River"
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In Greek mythology, the river Phlegethon ("[river of] fire") was one of the five rivers of the underworld. It flowed with fire that burned but did not consume fuel. In the Divine Comedy the river is made of boiling blood and is part of the seventh circle of hell, containing the shades of tyrants, murderers, robbers and those guilty of sins involving violence against others. ...more on Wikipedia about "Phlegethon"
The Sambation River is a legendary river beyond which the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel were exiled by the Assyrian king Shalmanezer V. According to legend, it stops flowing every Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath), the day Jews are not allowed to travel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sambation"
In Greek mythology, Styx (Στυξ, "[river of] unbreakable oath") is the name of a river which formed the boundary between earth and the underworld, Hades. It circles Hades nine times. Styx and Phlegethon, Acheron and Cocytus converge at the center of Hades on a great marsh. The other important rivers of Hades are Lethe and Eridanos. The Buddhist version of this river is known as the river Sanzu. ...more on Wikipedia about "Styx (mythology)"
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