the stone mentioned by the magician is probably the same stone occurring in the Odyssey book XXIV ( Od. XXIV 9-14). I'm referring to the second Nekyia , in which we have to do with a real descent [...] symbolic place; the second ( mnema ) puts emphasis on the symbolic side of this relationship, considering the tomb, first of all, as a memory place. However, the symbolic and material link between stone [...] [3] Therefore, an image conserves the multiplicity of senses that it has been assuming during its history as an embedded part of mythological language: each time the same image recurs, in a mythical