I am going to tell you about a little obsession the ancient Greeks had about reincarnation and the afterlife. They were very obsessed about a utopia and what it meant to have an ideal society. Especially during Plato’s time. Plato wrote several books about what it meant to be as a perfect utopia. Part of that utopia was the ability to feed yourself with little work and living in an area where the earth provided all necessities for life. It sounds like not much has changed in the last 3000 years.
Elysium was the final resting place of the souls of heroes and virtuous men. The ancients often distinguished two Elysian realms--the islands of the Blessed and the Lethean fields of Haides.
The first of these--also known as the White Island or the Islands of the Blessed--was an afterlife realm reserved for the heroes of myth. It was an island paradise located in the far western stream of the river Okeanos (Oceanus) ruled by the Titan-King Kronos (Cronus) or Rhadamanthys, son of Zeus.
https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/myths/arcadia/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortunate_Isles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrarianism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusinian_Mysteries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJCUz3Sb6Z
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