The earth gapes before me and I clamber down, Persephone on her way to Hades. Homer wrote the Underworld lay beyond the world’s western edge, but the Greeks used several portals to access the land of the dead: Lake Avernus, Alcyonian Lake, a cavern near Tenarus. And I’ve found another: Ben’s Cave in Grand Bahama’s Lucayan National Park. My Charon is Shamie Rolle, owner of Calabash Eco Adventures. He leads me down the spiraling stairs to a dock next to the underground lake. Sleeping bats shift overhead. One wakes, taking flight into the sun that filters through the verdant foliage above us all. Its wings are the only noise as we turn our backs to the light and enter the water. The waterline rises above my mask. I look down at Shamie, who’s already headed toward the darkness below. We are spared Cerberus and have crossed Acheron, the river forever separating ancient Greece’s living and dead.

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