Tales of the Underworld

 

 

This is a collection of stories about loss and longing.

 

 A beautiful Indian princess uses her wit to rescue her husband from Death.

 

A musician follows his dead wife down into the Land of the Dead and pays for her release by playing on his lyre.

 

Even Gods die -- when the God Balder is killed, his mother also tries to buy his release with music -- the music of grief-stricken sobbing and wailing. She almost succeeds...

 

And finally, in Australia's Dream-Time, the first animals are bewildered by the first death and try to discover its secrets...