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  2. Charon - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (/ ˈ k ɛər ɒ n,-ən / KAIR-on, -⁠ən; Ancient Greek: Χάρων Ancient Greek pronunciation: [kʰá.rɔːn]) is a psychopomp, the ferryman of the Greek underworld. He carries the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the rivers Acheron and Styx, which separate the worlds of the living ...

  3. Acheron - Wikipedia

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    The Acheron flows into the Ionian Sea in Ammoudia, near Parga. The Acheron also features prominently in Greek mythology, where it is often depicted as the entrance to the Greek Underworld where souls must be ferried across by Charon (although some later sources, such as Roman poets, assign this role to the river Styx).

  4. Greek underworld - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, the underworld or Hades (Ancient Greek: ᾍδης, romanized: Háidēs) is a distinct realm (one of the three realms that make up the cosmos) where an individual goes after death. The earliest idea of afterlife in Greek myth is that, at the moment of death, an individual's essence ( psyche ) is separated from the corpse and ...

  5. La barca de Aqueronte - Wikipedia

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    La barca de Aqueronte, translated in English as The Boat of Charon [1] or Charon's Boat, [2] is an 1887 oil-on-canvas and allegorical painting [1] [2] by the Filipino painter Félix Resurrección Hidalgo. The work was a gold medalist during the Exposicion General de las Filipinas [1] (International Philippine Exposition) in Madrid. [3]

  6. Charon's obol - Wikipedia

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    Charon's obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth [1] of a dead person before burial. Greek and Latin literary sources specify the coin as an obol , and explain it as a payment or bribe for Charon , the ferryman who conveyed souls across the river that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead.

  7. Chthonic deities - Wikipedia

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    A relief from grave of Lysimachides, 320 BC. Two men and two women sit together as Charon, the ferryman of the Underworld, approaches to take him to the land of the dead.. In Greek mythology, deities referred to as chthonic (/ ˈ θ ɒ n ɪ k /) or chthonian (/ ˈ θ oʊ n i ə n /) [a] were gods or spirits who inhabited the underworld or existed in or under the earth, and were typically ...

  8. Chaeron - Wikipedia

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    Chaeron (Ancient Greek: Χαίρων)—also rendered Charon—was an ancient Greek male name. It may refer to: Chaeron, in Greek mythology, the son of Apollo and Thero; Chaeron of Megalopolis, sent by Philip II of Macedon to consult the Delphic oracle about a snake from a peculiar dream; Chaeron of Pellene, wrestler and tyrant

  9. Phlegethon - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, the river Phlegethon (Φλεγέθων, English translation: "flaming") or Pyriphlegethon (Πυριφλεγέθων, English translation: "fire-flaming") was one of the five rivers in the infernal regions of the underworld, along with the rivers Styx, Lethe, Cocytus, and Acheron.