you have a list of npubs called owners

their follows are whitelisted

all of their mutes their authored events cannot be stored on the relay 

 el salvador was the first to openly go big on it... USA is probably gonna go big soon, if they do, china will, and russia will have to as well, and it's pretty much rocket time for bitcoin when all that happens

it's pretty momentous, as momentous as the federal reserve act i think, this is the only way they can go forward and it will radically reshape politics because if states are bound to its fiscal discipline this means that saving will become a thing again and that means a golden age really could be coming

june 25th 2025 at 9:30 in the morning is a very special celestial configuration that ancient hindu texts say will mark the beginning of a golden age... it lines up very neatly 

 yes, to make it fully happy i had to add a memory configuration setting on it too... it now can be configured to contain memory allocation, as it was OOM killed when i tried to upload my cache of follows events that i've been ripping from nostrudel and coracle

you can see its info page on next.nostrudel.ninja here: https://next.nostrudel.ninja/#/r/wss%3A%2F%2Fnostr.realy.lol%2F - click on the notes to see what's actually stored on it... well, sorta... nostrudel is a bit funny with loading these but mostly works... coracle... for some reason doesn't like to do this anymore, i had it working at one or two points in the past but i didn't focus on figuring out what the error was

 

 hrmph coracle mangles that relay info page link 

 childhood's end is a good book... definitely worth a read 

 that's why it's called Go 

 after a small change to actually quite a lot of files (this commit https://github.com/mleku/realy/commit/6b80cbea1191f387e4ca61b26e35795c72a48459 )

https://cdn.satellite.earth/fd6966c30bb35d874470919a35fbf3cf0561c9cdb46d4e6633838f67a30c33a8.png

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 geez i go through all that effort to explain you can put it anywhere and how to do it and that's not enough

i'm fine with it this way, most people will just run it alone on a VPS maybe with lerproxy (my reverse proxy with nip-05) which just uses a file wherever "mapping.txt"

`.realy` is not going to be confusing or conflict with anything, that's part of the reason why i picked the name as i did, short, and unambiguous

my home folder barely has 50 files/folders in it, i wouldn't call it pollution, and on a VPS, XDG is irrelevant 

 i'm just building it on single core 1gb VPS and it's kinda taking a while to build haha

i might have to consider making binaries available 

 ok, it was because i had set my GOROOT wrong lol 

 i don't like the xdg convention for server apps because you kinda want to be able to remember where to look for it

when you install a fresh ubuntu server, it doesn't have a .config folder, this is mostly used by GUIs

i could be mistaken but the D in XDG stands for "Desktop" 

 well, i might change it, i want to avoid making too many high level changes from here on 

 yeah i'm changing it now, easy enough to do

it's actually the appdata library where that is designed in... on windows and mac it goes into special folders... should be the same for linux methinks 

 hah, it was a bit more of a dumpster fire than that actually... fixed now, will need to revise documents i guess maybe 

 haha... fortunately i'm a bit more experienced than that...

i had literally just done a shortcut on this part of the configuration and it wasn't set up to use the proper OS application data directory scheme

so i just had to revise the appdata library, so it conforms to XDG, and then fiddle with my configuration so i'd moved all the files and pointed all the configs in the right place

thanks for your advising on this, this is definitely better 

 it looks like he will win by more than 20% though, just that the fascists have the house, and a huge network of agents throughout the state governments of the swing states and blue states

just gotta plan to account for insane regime uncertainty at this point i think 

 it's gonna be a fun dumpster fire but ok... this is why i'm a nip-42 maxi... paid relays are the only way to protect DM privacy 

 nspawn is more lightweight than docker, no layered filesystem... but you have to bring more batteries to it... i never even heard of it until a year ago, it's a great way to put services in containers

https://github.com/relaytools/relay-tools-images i helped build this 

 yeah, it had go in it because cloudfodder was building strfry sprockets in Go and it was simplest to just write a script to install go and git and pull the stuff

go and git have got to be the smallest footprint dev toolchain there is, anyone that doesn't get how powerful that is is just not thinking 

 i was very interested in "NoKernel" even more, and have even thought of an idea of having a kernel running on each core of a CPU with a message passing interface

plan9 also goes towards this direction as well, by creating a uniform socket interface for everything, the next logical step from the unix "everything is a file"

but android also with LXC namespace isolation goes a long way towards this also

and i get it that this is what UFS and ZFS are trying to do to filesystems but really LVM2 does it better overall, you can conceive of a single service that just manages this, and another service that manages permission, like a local version of ETCD

i think it's gonna be a long time yet before we see the end of monolithic kernels though... apple runs on a bsd microkernel and everyone else is running monolithics

i think really it's just about the API differences, it's hard to make a mapping between standard system APIs and the distinctly different way you run things with a no-kernel everything-is-a-service style of architecture... the slowest moving parts of software development are languages and kernels

it's a subject dear to my heart though... kernels and compilers, my two favourite things 

 yeah, and it might make it possible to dispense with much of the linux kernel too, especially if you start to think in terms of plan9 "everything is a server" 

 i'm not sure if you are even reading my notes but i literally just built and am running my realy relay on wss://nostr.realy.lol this evening and you already have access to read and write to it if your client auths to confirm you are one of my follows

it took a bit over a minute including download time to build it on a 1gb memory VPS

you should be able to get any Go based relay to build from source in even as small as 512Mb of memory 

 i could add this feature to #realy very easily... i've not looked at doing such things because i simply think it's a silly thing, and my relay https://realy.lol has SIMD SHA256 hashing on it so it's pretty fast, i think it's under 500ns to hash a message, and the canonical message format derivation is also zero allocation 

 it's written in go, same as haven, and it's based off relayer instead of khatru, which i think does stupid things with the concurrency, way too much of it in eventstore libraries

i completely rewrote the entire go-nostr library as well, everything is way faster, you can see here:

https://github.com/mleku/nostrbench

it's got the fastest JSON and binary encoder you can get... i have no idea what strfry's data encoding performance is like but i doubt it could be much faster than this 

 also, it already has a simple access control system based on the follow and mute lists of designated npubs, called "owners"

all muted npubs their events can't be stored on the relay and only the follows of the owners are allowed to access and must use auth 

 https://i.imgflip.com/98q6er.jpg

i've been in more than a few abusive relationships but governments really top the list

bulgarian government never paid me back any EU VAT on work related expenses when i registered a corporation 2 years ago and then expect me to pay 1000 euros to shut down the corporation

i just left, never going back

if it's really impossible to avoid paying direct taxes with an administrative burden on you, it's best to leave 

 yeah for me it was 12 years trying to start a business and just having so many obstructions to being able to become viable 

 in australia i tried thousands of times to get jobs and crickets

in Bulgaria before 2 weeks of trying i'm doing my first training shift

to be fair, western europe sucks too, it was only in the balkans that i found things more reasonable... so-called "corrupt" countries lol 

 i hope to go to the midwest, up in the mountains, and just stay off the radar, i mean it can't be that hard right? with millions of losers being shipped in across the southern border

i'm doing ok here in the edge of the EU in this same way... it's a lot harder for them to enforce it in such rugged terrain and relatively sparse population... customs is a killer though, absolute nightmare and extremely high import duties 

 these days i mostly work remotely, and try to avoid getting into arrangements involving taxation... current main paid gig i don't have any binds to the local authorities and i get paid in sats, company is based in USA, so i guess they might be paying the IRS on my behalf

i had to do some registration rigmerole for a job back in 2021 and that shit turned into a huge waste of time and zero tax back for my actual business expenses 

 yeah, i'm just going to live somewhere small enough that it's not a pain

i work remotely anyhow... i seriously doubt the IRS is doorknocking in buttfuck idaho, or whatever small place i land (preferably under 10k people) 

 being childless in middle age is nothing to envy, nor is my plague of health

the only thing that is going right for me is i'm good enough at programming to be able to get work and deliver on the spec

if i get lucky enough to find a wife where i go next, then, well, ok, but i played a long game and didn't have fun getting there

the one thing that i am very grateful for is to not be stuck in a position where i have to figure out how to not have the state brainwash my children, that really disturbs me... i had a really bad time at school and i wouldn't wish that on my own children, and it's worse now than it was then 

 yeah, update on that, i've figured out once again it's the Girao brand cage eggs... probably fed on wheat... but also whatever that marinade was, probably added to it 

 the main type of eggs available on madeira are one of the allergens... now i've remembered i had this problem previously with them, it's a combination of things, my autoimmune reaction builds up and once it passes a threshold the eggs start to trigger asthma 

 yeah, madness... and it's these particular eggs, and the problem went away after a long time not eating them 

 probably some DNS record bullcrap... GN 

 yeah, that's almost certainly the problem... you could verify this by getting someone to use the DNS of your registrar to test if that works then you know it's just a waiting game 

 yeah... this is why i want to get out of europe, it's really hard to find any place where you can get actual beef, or any other meat products that aren't laced with nitrites and preservatives and wheat and miscellaneous toxic bullshit... and fed on grain itself... i can smell it on most of the meat that it's being fed on wheat or corn or whatever

grass fed is so much different taste, like real fucking food

that's how i keep on falling down on this, and why i don't plan to be here in 6 months time, hell if someone said "i have a place you can stay and work right now and get raw milk and beef" i'd be like "tomorrow or the next day?" 

 well i got a lot of sunlight in the last two days... nah, it's been tripped over some threshold, once that happens i think the only really effective way out is fasting 

 you are from former yugoslavia country right? there is a lot more actual beef there than anywhere else on the continent... you can also find it in the UK, but outside of yugoslavia, basically if EU then VEAL

the butcher in the supermarket in Sarajevo had mainly beef... yes, probably because muslim, one of the benefits of islam lol

veal... and on top, grain fed, feedlot. is worse than typical pork... the only form of beef available to me is frozen hamburger patties, and supposedly over the other side of the island, which is hard to get to, 40 euros each way by taxi, there is one or two butchers that actually have proper 18 month+ beef... i have never actually seen it anywhere in my year here so far

yeah, i'm going where i can easily find beef, preferably to beef country in fact, preferably somewhere that people actually understand the difference

it's literally such a destruction of my quality of life to not be able to eat proper meat, this is the situation for most euro-peons at this point

there's lots of other things going on but the ruling class of europe seems to be most intent of all the things it is doing , aside from raising taxes even further, is starving people of actual beef and mutton 

 the most strange thing about the reaction i'm having at the moment is different than normal

the bronchoconstriction is not really bad, like, if my first time at it in 2014 with the severe reaction from wheat/celiac, was 10, then this is like 6

but what is really irritating is my eyes, i feel like i've been touching a cat and then touched my eyes... which i actually did do a bit in recent weeks, even 3 days ago, but it's like it's just hanging around and isn't dissipating... my eyes feel like salty sandpaper

it may have something to do with the DMSO i have been using... perhaps it has exacerbated the problem with stuff going deeper into my skin and in this case my eyeballs


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 i wouldn't say no if someone was offering but no, i have midwest in mind... colorado/wyoming/montana

reminds me, that argentina finally has someone who is actually dialing back government, that's a plus also, on top of it being beef country 

 one of my colleagues at my job with dusk.network was from there and it sounded pretty awful 2 years ago 

 yeah, fasting and sunshine really are two helpful things but sunshine - too much reduces immune function, as does too much exercise... i've probably also added to my problem with my outing the day before yesterday, was outside for like 4 hours, walking and riding a bike 

 i'd be almost certain that you actually have a food allergy but like me, normally it seems like you can get away with it but then when these other allergens get bad the whole immune system goes into panic mode and the anaphylaxis and inflammation kicks in

mine is celiac but there are other specific allergies, egg, milk, salicylates (tomatoes, capsicum) i think brassicas can cause allergies too

i know mine is celiac because i also get dermatitis herpeteformis, which is a rash i get around my elbows, hands and sometimes feet, that resembles toad skin or herpes, even when it's scratched, which you do because it's itchy as hell, and no, calamine doesn't calm it down, it also leaks yellow mucus when you bust up the skin, it is something to do with the pores... i only just realised that this skin problem was actually a symptom of celiac like last month...

what happens is when the primary allergy flares up from too much intake of the allergen, this triggers autoimmune reactions of other kinds as well, like when i first got the severe bronchoconstriction from the celiac back in 2014, i also had additional reactions to especially brown rice (not so bad to rice), to cucumber, watermelon, onion, garlic, tomatoes, capsicum, and even milk, but normally i tolerate all of those things well... and yes, dust and pollens also contribute, and i think maybe that what might normally not trigger the food reaction, when in combination with several others, like lesser allergens, egg, milk, pollen, etc

it is basically impossible to identify exactly what it is without doing elimination and i did that back then and found that the only things that didn't trigger it were meat and potatoes, and sausages, which are meat and potatoes

anyhow, fasting is the number one thing to do to get it to go away... once the gut clears after 3 days, it also resets your metabolism and the immune system settles down with nothing continuing to irritate it

stuff we eat hangs around in our bodies for about this long typically, in the mouth, in the throat, in the intestines, if it sticks to or gets lodged in cracks and crannies it will continue to irritate until it's mostly eaten by bacteria or washed away 

 i get dermatitis herpeteformis, and i have chronic diarrhea, a diet high in bread for 7 months while in prison led to the development of chronic bronchoconstriction (basically anaphylaxis)

I get about half of these uncommon symptoms as well:

However, more than half the adults with celiac disease have symptoms that are not related to the digestive system, including:

Anemia, usually from iron deficiency due to decreased iron absorption.
Loss of bone density, called osteoporosis, or softening of bones, called osteomalacia.
Itchy, blistery skin rash, called dermatitis herpetiformis.
Mouth ulcers.
Headaches and fatigue.
Nervous system injury, including numbness and tingling in the feet and hands, possible problems with balance, and cognitive impairment.
Joint pain.
Reduced functioning of the spleen, known as hyposplenism.
Elevated liver enzymes.


i know my bones are weaker than normal, i get joint pain, the dermatitis, fatigue, numbness and tingling in the hands and feet, balance problems, i was tested by an impulse response test while i was in New Zealand that said i had severe impulse control and attention deficit, i also got tested at a sleep lab, overnight test, and a day test, and when i saw the neurologist he was ready to prescribe me ritalin or dexamphetamine, both of which i'd tried previously and were causing severe side effects

i'm 48 now and several of the secondary problems that can come from this not being properly treated also... the numbness and tingling are actually part of a complex of issues related to sugar metabolism as well, and i now get cramps in my lower legs and hands

i sure as fuck would like to get it treated but literally that means eating grass fed beef and raw milk and living in the country lol... can be tricky to organise, i'm working on it 

 yeah, it's celiac though, the list of symptoms matches up perfectly

secondary problems have developed due to the inflammation and digestion problems, especially potassium deficiency and magnesium deficiency

i get ZERO benefit from any kind of steroids, the only thing that stops the asthma is stopping the allergens, that's mainly wheat, but i guess this particular kind of eggs here are now in the same basket

several of these problems diminished a lot when i was on a milk diet, but the neuropathy started to get worse and i put on a lot of weight

i only get reflux from eating certain kinds of foods... which are probably gluten or seed oil containing in most cases

in any case, once a gain 🤦‍♂️ yes the eggs, i already figured this one out like 4 months ago and here i am again, forgotten again

fasting and beef and no wheat or eggs all will probably help... cannabis helps stop the cramps but i was only taking CBD/HHC stuff, which was sorta half working for a few days and then stopped wolking so much 

 well, that's why i want to go for the raw milk/grass fed beef

this has just reminded me yet again that i can't tolerate standard EU regulated eggs, has to be legit free range or nothing

i'm cooking regularly with beef tallow now, and i am sure it is helping, and as for inflammation, i'm taking MSM and also spraying 60% DMSO with magnesium chloride in it

they both are reducing the cramping problem... it was just the eggs, it crept up on me, takes about 1-2 weeks of daily eating these eggs before it starts

probably if i would actually cut out seed oil fried potato chips that would help a lot, Jack Kruse specifically says that carb foods cooked in canola/sunflower shit have acrylamide in them which contributes to peripheral neuropathy

he also mentions in one text i got about it that the standard treatments are antinflammatories and painkillers and both long term are making you sicker than eliminating these things

nah, i'm making some progress, really, the MSM is definitely a step forward, i've got more energy now and everything, it's a natural antiinflammatory, and the DMSO is both opening up the peripheral circulation and putting magnesium there in the muscles that are having problems depolarising, which is partly due to the nerves but partly due to low potassium and magnesium levels

just have to keep the eggs out of the diet, i'm too nervous about it at this point to even try, if i can even find them, free range, i just don't trust these EU farmers at all, they keep on pandering to brussells and the amount of sickness it is causing just keeps getting worse every year 

 yeah, oof man i hate those misanthropic massmurdering sumbiches ... that's my point, they are doing it to have people suffer and die

also i've never really been to croatia, passed through a few times going to Bosnia but that was it, always had a bad impression about it... i think it's the most "conformant" for EU standards? you see the odd bit of EU bullshit around bosnia and serbia but they don't really seem to have control of the people so much or the favour of these gods 

 the thing is the EU isn't embargoing them like they are with everyone else except bulgaria and slovenia

"too corrupt" is the cover story. lol

more like the people in the government won't even comply 

 there are some good guides out there and i think there is forums where you can send photos and people will help you... not on nostr yet unfortunately 

 when i was a youngin local university libraries were a good place to find books that had actually relevant local species 

 one of my follows posted one recently 

 i made a reply to it so it should not be so hard 

 yeah, i couldn't find it in the time range i thought it was but it may have been further back...

i might see if i can make nostrudel pull all my notes for the last few weeks and dump em on my newly deployed relay on my VPS 

 meh, idk it seems to load them on the screen but they arnet' apparently going anywhere else, gonna play with the settings a bit more 

 meh... way too much data to sift through, it's around somewhere, i made a reply, and i'm pretty sure it was to a post that Marakesh made of someone else's stuff

the repost event id is: d3226b6e537a70b866ee83c09d48165d98e079104bf782f957f1bfd468c45d0e and their pubkey is: dace63b00c42e6e017d00dd190a9328386002ff597b841eb5ef91de4f1ce8491

the event that it reposts is: 5a3cf3e4b3dda1513148977f58e4d88ddddf57f58399934d3f1449105317d5a0 and the pubkey of the author is: 35c327905920ee1d1c2aa110208fc4f08807928dcea1ffbf9f3ad5418bbe56ea

if you know of better tools to do these searches then you'll certainly find it

 

 and yes, it was easy to find, just not easy to find where to find the rest of the thread

it would be really nice to have a simple tool that just trawls all of the relays with a custom filter... actually, ...

this would be the filter:

{
  "authors":["dace63b00c42e6e017d00dd190a9328386002ff597b841eb5ef91de4f1ce8491"],
 "#e": ["d3226b6e537a70b866ee83c09d48165d98e079104bf782f957f1bfd468c45d0e"],
  "limit": 200
}

i tried doing it with nostrudel's event console but it gave no results on my relay list, maybe you would have better luck 

 oh, probably that filter needs my npub in it 

 this is just a classic example of how broken nostr clients are

i have no problem finding this event, EASILY by just grepping the output of my relay export

probably if i just string some greps together i can find it... 

 i'm just exporting the entire db, running it through a two greps to find my npub and that post i'm replying to... maybe it will eventually find it... 120mb/s lol damn

i'm just not sure why these clients don't find this shit, i write queries in the database and all that shit and pop in seconds 

 grep flagged a match on "binary" data so idk, this is another hint that there is something wrong with the binary codec

i'm going to write some tests... i have a motherlode of events that i know at least some dozens or hundreds of these don't encode/decode correctly, i can just write a simple test that you feed this file to it and it spits out the ones that don't get through the encode/decode cycle 

 oh, after digging around trying to find that ai aliens thing, it's from mastodon btw 

 don't forget the knackwoerst 

 italian is "senza" 

 idk... bulgarian and serbian/etc is "bez" and slovenian "brez" 

 i didn't quite believe she was actually on here but she is, no mostr.pub address 

 haha, yeah, i think it's just the case that you can only really deal with your 12 disciples so when you get too many people engaging you have to get rid of the ones who are not as serious

your fault, bringing up Jesus again 

 also i'm not really a big account... i just like to get engaged with people who i perceive are adding to the conversation, mainly that actually means teaching me something... or at least making me feel like i have a student 

 well my mother was always teaching me things but she got sick and her trade before she was a mother was nurse... and my father was always trying to teach things but he was terrible at it, super cranky and demanding, more of a tyrant of a teacher... and yeah, before that, my mother's father also a teacher and engineer 

 on a long enough timeline, everyone becomes a #bitcoin and #nostr maxi 

 that's why complex languages, complex build systems, and complex (read: dynamic linked) libraries don't really help anyone

that's why i say "on a long enough timeline, everyone becomes a #golang maxi"

it satisfies all of these requirements, and you just made it clear why they are so important 

 hahaha

fuck agile

the biggest problem in software dev is architects, people who know how to keep features down to a small enough size that the work can be stable at the prescribed deadline

at 3 years full time i started to get a bit of a grasp on architecture and i feel like i can pretty much be given a job description now, and within a couple of days tell you how long it will take, how many people it will need, and what features probably will need more time

software architecture is like building architecture but different... instead of load bearing requirements and foundations and whatnot, we have feature counts, which have trees of features under them, and you have to elaborate them down to a certain depth to actually get the picture of how much is involved

people and time are the main resources, as distinct from materials and labor and equipment... in my recent work i have also discovered that it can slow things down a lot if it's not easy to coordinate people's days to each other, remote work is really hard to do if people aren't "excessively" chatty about what they are doing because you can only sync up progress and deal with problems if people TALK ABOUT THEM

anyhow

maybe some day soon i'll actually get to architect for something bigger with more people, but for now, just continuing to do my own thing and notice the features and time involved so i can use this info later and to help my own work in the meantime 

 i dunno, it was odd because as someone suggested "maybe the black ones were just killed off" but on the other hand, it occurred to me that maybe there has been a lot of white ones here a very long time

supposedly lol... humans have only been here 600 years, according to portuguese government

but there is definitely a pyramid on the canaries, at least one, and i'm rather wearied of seeing in person these antiquities and then someone tells me "but the government banned them from digging any deeper". In bulgaria, under plovdiv, they found 6500 years worth of antiquities and halted it. there is 7 hills in that town, that could well be either pyramids or at least artificial, i've been on top of two of them, one has this epic 100m tall statue on it, made by communists i suppose, some general

The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya starts right in early at this story about a 400 light year away star going supernova, it refers to it as Geminga, about 40,000 years ago... it says that the radiation that came from that blast, full of x-gamma-cosmic rays, sterilised much of the pacific/indian ocean region (ie australia and antarctica) and the survivors on the edges of the blast zone had mutations, and two important mutations, which it refers to repeatedly as relating to genetic "haplogroups" that had the lactose switch disabled and the white skin/blonde/red hair mutation

it later on mentions the idea that the ancient greeks talked about a place called "tartarus" the lake of fire, ie "hell"... and it speculates that this may actually be the volcano on tenerife, in the canaries, the main, biggest island (which also has a pyramid or two, well, of course very decayed to be difficult to recognise. Tartarus is the word for "hell" in the new testament.

it also talks about the center of atlantis being possibly the geological formation today known as the Richat Sructure, because it has the concentric rings of different kinds of rock that lend themselves to being turned into the concentric canal system described in Plato's Critias... which I've read, because of this, and i concur this seems plausible, and it talks about how there was an event that burned out most of north africa forming the desert, but used to be a massive river flowing west out towards modern Mauritania and through the area of the Richat Structure...

so i'm of the opinion that probably the mutation of white hair blue eyes possibly was coincident between the animals and the humans of this region and for the humans it conferred some kind of benefit, like, maybe a lot more energy because they were in this temperate zone with white skin and a lot more UV and such and other light colours increasing various enzymes and whatnot and they became.... well, "godlike"

so, the white cats seem to me like a remant of this somehow, and i really don't believe that there is any way that if humans were sailing across to south america in the times when the maya and inca and aztecs talked about their "gods" visiting them and how when Cortez showed up they thought the gods had returned... there is a natural sailing route across through the island chain of which Madeira and Porto Santo are the first two, and there is ancient greek accounts of these islands referring to them as the "Blessed Isles"

i'm sure you will find even more to back this up but my point here is that these cats have very little transit to the rest of the world and they probably arrived here long ago, there is also rabbits here too and unless they originated here (could be, since also blackbirds and canaries also originated here) then the only way they could have got here is by humans bringing them

in any case, it could just be that the portuguese 600 years ago who came here liked white cats, but i like to think they are a sign of something deeper... and it's not just the cats, up the road from me is a full white dog (with blue eyes also), and i have seen quite a number of those too, this whole island chain was originally named after the presence of dogs and then consider the tartarus story and the "charon" ferryman to "hell" ie tartarus and the three headed dog Pluto/Hades... if you dig into the myths about hell in ancient greek and roman i bet you can find more than a few more correspondences