To your health!

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To your health!, 2024
A Photograph by Godriguez

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The belief that you should never make a toast with water in your glass harks back to the time of the Ancient Greeks: This is a superstition with its place firmly embedded in history. According to Greek mythology, the dead would always drink from the River Lethe in the depths of the Underworld, in order to forget their past, corporeal lives. As a result of this story, the Greeks would always toast to the dead with glasses filled with water to symbolize their voyage, via the river, to the Underworld.

As a consequence of this morbid story, it is considered that proposing a toast to somebody with water, is akin to wishing bad luck, and maybe even death, on him or her. Many people also believe that by toasting with water you are also wishing death upon yourself, as this liquid reflects your future watery grave.

photography, digital mixed media (no AI)

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Open Edition | photographic digital art on archival photo paper, 30" x 40" x 1"

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