The Mortal and Immortal Euphrosynos
Living for material pleasures is like lighting matches one after the other, expecting each one to burn forever.
These two different kinds of pursuit and pleasures are ilustrated in this mosaic:
The material, whose destiny is the grave, and the spiritual, whose destiny is immortality.
“But now, since the soul is seen to be immortal, it cannot escape [107d] from evil or be saved in any other way than by becoming as good and wise as possible. For the soul takes with it to the other world nothing but its education and nurture, and these are said to benefit or injure the departed greatly from the very beginning of his journey thither. And so it is said that after death, the tutelary genius of each person, to whom he had been allotted in life, leads him to a place where the dead are gathered together; then they are judged and depart to the other world [107e] with the guide whose task it is to conduct thither those who come from this world; and when they have there received their due and remained through the time appointed, another guide brings them back after many long periods of time.”
If you only realized the depth of thought and knowledge that has come from Sumeria, Egypt, and India, down to greek philosophy and religion, and present hindu philosophy, that’s the thread you would go after.
Note: Here the Phaedo reflects the egyptian belief of Osiris as Judge of the Dead (which has been conflated with both Hades and Dionysus - Heraclitus DK B15; and Plutarch, Moralia), present also in Sumeria in the form of the Anunnaki:
“In the poem Enki and the World Order, the Anunnaki "do homage" to Enki, sing hymns of praise in his honor, and "take up their dwellings" among the people of Sumer. The same composition twice states that the Anunnaki "decree the fates of mankind".” Leick, Gwendolyn (1998) [1991], A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Mythology, New York: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-19811-9
“Virtually every major deity in the Sumerian pantheon was regarded as the patron of a specific city and was expected to protect that city's interests. The deity was believed to permanently reside within that city's temple. One text mentions as many as fifty Anunnaki associated with the city of Eridu. In Inanna's Descent into the Netherworld, there are only seven Anunnaki, who reside within the Underworld and serve as judges. Inanna stands trial before them for her attempt to take over the Underworld; they deem her guilty of hubris and condemn her to death.” Anunnaki
And in India, as the god Yama, and in Siberia and Mongolia as Erlik.
“they deem her guilty of hubris and condemn her to death.” - to die, i.e., to be mortal, human. This was transfigured into the punishment of Azazel, as recounted in the Book of Enoch and the Zohar, where he is thrown out of heaven for saying that he could control the animal urge if he were in Man’s shoes, thus becoming shackeled by iron chains, strangely much like Prometheus.
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