The Eleusinian Mysteries promised initiates a happy afterlife. Elsewhere in Greek thought, the afterlife was generally seen as an unpleasant shadow existence in Hades. Some believed in reincarnation, as taught by Pythagoras and discussed by Plato. The myth of Orpheus, who tried to rescue his wife Eurydice from Hades, was associated with the Orphic religion which promised escape from reincarnation through asceticism and following Orphic teachings.