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Charon, in mythologyCharon, in Greek mythology: see Hades 1 The ruler of the underworld: see Pluto .2 The world of the dead, ruled by Pluto and Persephone, located either underground or in the far west beyond the inhabited regions. ..... Click the link for more information. . Charon, in astronomyCharon, in astronomy, the natural satellite, or moon, of Pluto Pluto, in astronomy, a dwarf planet and the first Kuiper belt, or transneptunian, object (see comet ) to be discovered (1930) by astronomers. Pluto has an elliptical orbit usually lying beyond that of Neptune ...... Click the link for more information. . CharonIn Greek mythology, the son of Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night), whose duty it was to ferry the souls of the dead across the Rivers Styx and Acheron, his payment being the coin placed in the mouth of the corpse before burial. He continues in modern Greek folklore as Charos, or Charontas, the angel of death. Charon ferries dead across the river Styx. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Hall, 147; Ital. Lit.: Inferno.] See : Ferrying |
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| The foreigners were deported to Nizhni by boat, and Rostopchin had said to them in French: "Rentrez en vousmemes; entrez dans la barque, et n'en faites pas une barque de Charon. For all that any man may gainsay, the ketch Arangi, trader and blackbirder in the Solomon Islands, may have signified in Jerry's mind as much the mysterious boat that traffics between the two worlds, as, at one time, the boat that Charon sculled across the Styx signified to the human mind. I heard him a little while afterwards, through the floor here, humming like the wind, the only song he knows-- about Bibo, and old Charon, and Bibo being drunk when he died, or something or other. |
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