The ruler of a land reduced to a swampy, infertile wasteland by a wound, symbolizing a sickness in the psyche or kingdom that must be healed for life to return.

The great swampy river of the Underworld, a boundary between worlds whose waters must be crossed, representing the necessary journey through darkness.

The primary landscape of the myth, representing the liminal, unconscious mind where repressed memories and emotions are preserved in a state of potent, fecund stagnation.