SBRFFFL Super Bowl XV Champ: Lest We Forget (2020 season wrap)
Lest We Forget If we're going to talk about rivers, there's always one—beyond our most recently decorated repeat champion Los Angeles River of Los Olivos—that comes back to me. Somewhere adrift in my literary studies I was introduced to the mythological River Lethe, one of the five rivers of Hades, that, once drank from, induced forgetfulness and oblivion. As some myths have it, those descending to the underworld would drink from the River Lethe to forget their earthly life and erase their sins, ostensibly being able to rest in peace. For Virgil, in his Aeneid , the river was what enabled the dead to be reincarnated into a new life. Now, what deepens the matter for me is that the name "lethe" (literally meaning "oblivion" or "concealment") comes from the Ancient Greek word for "truth"— aletheia —whose literal meaning isn't 'fact' or 'reality', but "un-concealment" or "un-forgetfulness." And, a ...