I remember the dead were buried with a coin under their tongues so they could pay him for the journey across the river of the damned or something. But what was the boatman's name? was it Hades? a website reference would be great.
2007-05-23 23:25:52 · 15 answers · asked by Hamza 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Charon (mythology), in Greek mythology, the son of Night and of Erebus, who personified the darkness under the earth through which dead souls passed to reach the home of Hades, the god of death. Charon was the aged boatman who ferried the souls of the dead across the River Styx to the gates of the underworld. He would admit to his boat only the souls of those who had received the rites of burial and whose passage had been paid with a coin placed under the tongue of the corpse. Those who had not been buried and whom Charon would not admit to his boat were doomed to wait beside the Styx for 100 years.
2007-05-24 16:10:30 · answer #1 · answered by Kinka 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
River Styx Greek Mythology
2016-12-12 09:07:39 · answer #2 · answered by duggins 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Greek mythology-Who was the boatman in the underworld?
I remember the dead were buried with a coin under their tongues so they could pay him for the journey across the river of the damned or something. But what was the boatman's name? was it Hades? a website reference would be great.
2015-08-04 09:32:05 · answer #3 · answered by Dede 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
River Styx Boatman
2016-10-02 21:15:36 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Charon is the boatman of the underworld. He carries the soul across the river Styx into Hades' realm. Styx is not really the river of the damned, just the dead... we all cross it. The Greeks would have said it's worse if you CAN'T cross it, which explains the coin.
2007-05-23 23:49:40 · answer #5 · answered by Jeff 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The ferryman's name is Charon, he plied the river Acheron separating Hades (the Underworld) from the upper world (the world of the living). Phlegyas was the boatman on the river Styx in the 5th circle.
2007-05-24 07:49:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Charon's the boatman. The coin was an oublos (or something like that). Ka-ron's the pronunciation. I had a teacher at school who insisted it was Sharon. Which kinda took the magic out of it, somehow.
2007-05-24 02:10:44 · answer #7 · answered by venusinfursinfers 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was Charon, he was the ferryman who brought the dead across the river Styx...
Until the bodies of the departed were buried in the earth above them with all due ceremony and sacrifice and marks of affection.. Till this was done, the souls of the departed had to wander listlessly about the far banks of the Styx..
A prospect that the ancients would have dreaded...
A coin in the mouth was payment to Charon, the richer you were, the coin would have varied...
Love and Light.. BB... )O(
2007-05-24 00:05:41 · answer #8 · answered by Bunge 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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It's true. In Ancient Greece, before someone died they would put a drachma, or a danake, under their tongue so that when they did die, they would be able to pay the fee to Charon to go to the underworld who would take the coin from their mouths.
2016-04-02 22:18:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
CHaron (i believe it spelled) he was adapted to the grim reaper in post greek/roman myths.
It wasn't hades, he was just the king of underworld. Why would a king man the ferry boat.
2007-05-24 10:47:42 · answer #10 · answered by moon dragon 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋