bridge functions as part of the setting of a makeshift performance but also as a narrative element that connects the world of the living with the world of the dead. American poet Charles Olson references the Chinvat Bridge ("Cinvat" in his reading) in his epic, The Maximus Poems; a work which deals with Avestan mythology, among numerous others. In visual culture Representations of bridges on early medieval Sogdian funerary couches have been identified as the Chinvat Bridge. The most notable of these appears on the east wall of the funerary couch of the sabao'' Wirkak excavated at Xi'an, but another fragmentary depiction appears on the funerary couch in the Miho Museum. Yazidi parallel In Yazidism, the Silat Bridge is a bridge in Lalish that leads to the most holy Yazidi shrine. It symbolizes the connection and crossing over from the profane earthly world and the sacred, esoteric world. As in Zoroastrianism, the Silat Bridge in will also play a role at the end of times in Yazidism (Kreyenbroek 2005: 39). See also As-Sirāt Bifröst Brig of Dread Matarta Vaitarna River Otherworld Silat Bridge Zoroastrian eschatology References Zoroastrian eschatology Afterlife Locations in ancient Iranian mythology Mythological bridges Mythological places