What is Charon?
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Charon, in Greek mythology, is the ferryman of the dead. The souls of the deceased are brought to him by Hermes, and Charon ferries them across the river Acheron. He only accepts the dead which are buried or burned with the proper rites, and if they pay him an obolus (coin) for their passage. For that reason a corpse had always an obolus placed under the tongue. Those who cannot afford the passage, or are not admitted by Charon, are doomed to wander on the banks of the Styx for a hundred years.
Charon ferries the dead across the river Acheron not the river Styx.
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The first moon of the planet Pluto to be discovered. It now appears that Pluto has two other moons as well.
In the 1987 science fiction novel Charon's Ark, Charon is depicted as an artificial world in which dinosaurs have been kept alive since the Cretaceous Period.
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The boatman of the river
Aka
Charon tried to rip my soul out of my physical body today with his scythe. I told him to fuck off and kicked him in the balls.
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